salamander

Evolutionary Steps

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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BBC
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Photographs by A.Herzog, video by E. Bastian, courtesy Biologically Inspired Robotics Group, EPFL
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