
Evolutionary Steps
Submitted by dsk on Thu, 2007-03-22 17:20.
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Wow, research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology looking into the evolutionary transition animals took from water to land have come up with an amazing amphibious robot that looks like a salamander. The robot is able to swim using a wiggling or wavy motion resembling a snake's motion on land. See the video below. The researchers' website has other great videos of the robot in motion.
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Photographs by A.Herzog, video by E. Bastian, courtesy Biologically Inspired Robotics Group, EPFL 










