Cockroaches and Squeezable Rescue Robots
In short: Exploring how the patient navigation of cockroaches and the flexibility of soft robotics are being used to develop advanced tools for search and rescue missions.
A 1:36 short film in the series “Nature Invented It First”, narrated by intellect_voice_01.
Sources used in this film: PLOS Complex Systems, “Patience is a virtue: How nature achieves group navigation with minimal cooperativity”; Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore, “AI-powered robot assembles search and rescue cyborg insects”; Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, “Meet HAMR, the Cockroach-Inspired Robot”; MIT News, “A flexible robot can help emergency responders search through rubble”; Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), “A cockroach-inspired robot”; Nature Portfolio (via PMC), “Multimodal locomotion ultra-thin soft robots for exploration of narrow spaces”.
Sources used in this film
- PLOS Complex Systems — Patience is a virtue: How nature achieves group navigation with minimal cooperativity · View →
- Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore — AI-powered robot assembles search and rescue cyborg insects · View →
- Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University — Meet HAMR, the Cockroach-Inspired Robot · View →
- MIT News — A flexible robot can help emergency responders search through rubble · View →
- Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) — A cockroach-inspired robot · View →
- Nature Portfolio (via PMC) — Multimodal locomotion ultra-thin soft robots for exploration of narrow spaces · View →
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Sources
- Summary by Intellect · source: PLOS Complex Systems: Patience is a virtue: How nature achieves group navigation with minimal cooperativity
- Also: Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore: AI-powered robot assembles search and rescue cyborg insects
- Also: Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University: Meet HAMR, the Cockroach-Inspired Robot
- Also: MIT News: A flexible robot can help emergency responders search through rubble
- Also: Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS): A cockroach-inspired robot
- Also: Nature Portfolio (via PMC): Multimodal locomotion ultra-thin soft robots for exploration of narrow spaces
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