At TEDxNASA, Dennis Hong introduces seven award-winnning, all-terrain robots — like the humanoid, soccer-playing DARwIn and the cliff-gripping CLIMBeR — all built by his team at RoMeLa, Virginia Tech. Watch to the end to hear the five creative secrets to his lab’s incredible technical success. Cool video… some great intro’s to some of these robots… [...]
TED – Dennis Hong – 7 Species of Robots
August 5th, 2010 · No Comments · News
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Mimicking Life – Animals in Motion
September 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Building Techniques
You often see people trying to mimic animals. Especially in how they move. I’ve seen robots that crawl, walk with 2 legs, walk with 4 legs, swim, slither and now… run. Robert Full shared some ideas on TED way back in February 2005. He shows some great research that was done in how certain critters [...]
