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Will Future Robots Have Tails?
Yesterday, I showed this cool video of Boston Dynamic’s very impressive BigDog robot. What was really impressive about the robot was its ability—if it was kicked or if it slipped on ice—to balance itself in real-time.
Well, it now appears that future robots might be able to improve upon this performance by simply adding a tail. According to this informative article in ScienceDaily scientists are now studying how the gecko uses its tail to keep its balance.
In addition to giving robots better balance it is thought that the geckos tail might provide the inspiration to also help unmanned aerial vehicles manuever more effectively in the air and assist astronauts manuever more effectively in space.
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I watch the cool video too.
When I saw the dog robot kicked by the person,
I became painful.
(If it is real dog, the dog bite the person.)
I think that the dog robot should have a tail.
Why does they which is robot with 4 legs have no tails.
I have never seen any robots.
Why animals have tails?
Insects don’t have tails.(They have 6 legs or more.)
There might be a reason.
(I apologizes because of poor English.
I want to write the comment instinctively
because I watched the same video on the same day.)
Thank you.
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