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An Autonomous Soft Orbiting Ringbot

Watch this video to learn how researchers at NC State developed an autonomous soft robot in a twisted ring shape that can spin on its axis and orbit along a circular path with the same rotating period — akin to the Moon’s motion that spins and orbits around the Earth.

“Regardless of where the twisted ringbot is introduced to these spaces, it is able to make its way to a boundary and follow the boundary lines to map the space’s contours – whether it’s a square, a triangle and so on,” says Fangjie Qi  , first author of the paper and a Ph.D. student at NC State.

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