US engineers create limbo-dancing soft-body robot inspired in the squid

Wednesday, November 30th 2011 - 00:18 UTC

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US Harvard University engineers have built a limbo-dancing robot that can squeeze under obstacles in its path for search and rescue missions. Read full article

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GeoffWard2
“limbo-dancing soft-body robot inspired in the squid”

How appropriate that this soft-bodied, spineless, umbiliacally-tethered 'creature' should be modelled on Lula.

[Sorry, you guys who like/liked him; to me he will always be the cold-eyed, tentacle-embracing, enveloper of a nation.]
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