MIT’s Bio-Inspired Robots
Watch this video to hear MIT Associate Professor Sangbae Kim’s students describe his biomimetics research. They explore why certain physical traits have evolved in animals in the natural world, then extract those useful principles, which are applicable to robotic systems, to solve such challenges as manipulation and locomotion in novel and interesting ways.
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