Easily digestible tech news... http://www.techdirt.com/ en-us http://www.techdirt.com/images/td-88x31.gifhttp://www.techdirt.com/ Thu, 12 May 2011 17:00:00 PDT Michael Ho http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110107/18073112578/dailydirt-robots-that-move-sometimes-creepy-way.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110107/18073112578/dailydirt-robots-that-move-sometimes-creepy-way.shtml

Japanese researchers have created autonomous robots roughly the size of a 7-month-old and a 13-month-old baby -- which also try to move like human babies. Baby Terminators are so cute and don't look at all threatening, do they? [url]

The GoQBot mimics a caterpillar for its method of locomotion by performing ballistic rolling. This 10-centimeter-long robot can roll away surprisingly fast when it balls up. [url]

Robots that can slither through granular materials might be useful for disaster recovery efforts. Given the fate of NASA's Mars rover Spirit, sand-swimming robots could also be useful for extraterrestrial terrains. [url]

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