Robot designers and nature

The latest member of the swimming robo-fish family shows how bio-mimetism (the concept we were recently introduced to by Gunter Pauli) is inspiring engineers around the world.

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There are great projects in the region, the EPFL developing the salamander and fly robots. Makes me think it would be a nice theme for Lift10, I would really be eager to hear the results of the experiment that had robots and cockroaches interact in Belgium (see video below).

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