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Robot designed to mimic the abilities of dung beetle displays impressive object manipulation skills (techxplore.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Bampot to c/jingszo

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To build their robot, the team started with stick insect designs. They then modified them in ways that mimicked the dung beetle. Then, instead of using machine learning to teach the robot what to do, as is done with many other modern robots, the researchers used a modular, neural-based, loco-manipulation control approach based on just two behaviors—pitch and roll for the upper two pairs of legs and simple biomechanics for the lower pair. The result was a robot they call ALPHA.

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[–] paddirn 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

At last, we can build a better, stronger Sisyphus, one who can roll a boulder up a hill 1000x more efficiently.

[–] Evolith 2 points 3 weeks ago

Sisyphus, now jobless, can be denied unemployment and socioeconomically rot from having his slightly above minimum wage income taken away by a robot.