Teaching a hexapedal robot to walk like a stick insect

One day in the near future you could be lying incapacitated in the middle of an earthquake-ravaged landscape where wheeled vehicles can’t reach you. Or in the very distant future, after engineers have solved thousands of problems associated with saving interplanetary astronauts from radiation, your great-granddaughter could be lying incapacitated in the middle of a marsquake-ravaged landscape where wheeled vehicles can’t reach her.

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Category: AI and Humanoids, Technology

Tags: Biomimicry, locomotion, Insect, Learning, Tohoku University, Artificial Intelligence