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News Technology Japanese researchers develop six-legged Asterisk robot that can pick up objects
| Japanese researchers develop six-legged Asterisk robot that can pick up objects |
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| Monday, 19 December 2011 21:28 | |||
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Fans of the sci-fi film Minority Report will no doubt recall the autonomous insect-like searcher robots deployed to find Tom Cruise's character mid-way through the flick. While not as elegant (or
sinister) as its film counterparts, the Asterisk robot being developed by the Arai Robotics Lab at Osaka University in Japan does an excellent job of resembling a big, mechanical bug with some interesting skills. After over six years of development, this unusual "limb-mechanism" robot now boasts an impressive array of functions that may soon find it performing vital tasks in numerous areas of society, including search and rescue...
Continue Reading Japanese researchers develop six-legged "Asterisk" robot that can pick up objectsSection: RoboticsTags: Biomimicry,
Osaka University,
Robotics
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