Humans and other vertebrates run fastest by minimising their contact with the ground. But the same isn’t true of six-limbed insects, which run fastest when they have three legs on the ground at once, like a tripod.
In the latest episode of the Robot Talk podcast, Claire chatted to Oluwami Dosunmu-Ogunbi from Ohio Northern University about bipedal robots that can walk and even climb stairs.
In the latest episode of the Robot Talk podcast, Claire chatted to Chapa Sirithunge from University of Cambridge about what robots can teach us about human anatomy, and vice versa.