For hundreds of years, scientists have been poaching design ideas from structures in nature. Now, biologists and engineers at UC Berkeley are working together to design a broad range of new products, such as life-saving milli-robots modeled on the way cockroaches run and adhesives based on the amazing design of a geckos foot. QUEST visits their labs to find out what's so special about these crawling and scaling animals.

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Bio-inspired Flying Robots developped at the LIS. This clip won the Best Video award at the AAAI 2008 video competition.

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Premiered at the Nanofest Film Festival 2008 at the Molecular Foundry. Peptoids are a biomimetic polymer system that are synthesized by robots, and have the potential to one day make completely artificial proteins. Peptoids have many unique properties that bridge the gap between proteins and bulk polymers. Here we describe the discovery of amphiphilic peptoid 36mers of specific sequence that spontaneously assemble into extremely thin (3 nm) crystalline sheets in aqueous solution. These peptoid nanosheets are one of the thinnest two-dimensional organic crystalline materials known. More at www.ronznet.com

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In 2008, HOK and the Biomimicry Guild formed an alliance to integrate nature's innovations in the design of buildings, communities and cities worldwide. This relationship between one of the world's largest architectural design firms and the only bio-inspired innovation company has expanded the mainstream application of bio-inspired design. Projects are underway in India, Saudi Arabia and the US

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A class of Master's students at EPFL ( www.epfl.ch ) developed bio-inspired artificial intelligence for the Roomba vacuum cleaning robot ( http ) that outperformed the program shipping with the robot. Performance was measured as the amount of dirt (colored beads) collected within 7 minutes. Control programs used bio-inspired artificial intelligence taught in the class, such as behavior-based control, neural networks, and artificial evolution. You can find more information on these methods in the book Bio-inspired Artificial Intelligence ( www.amazon.com ) by Dario Floreano ( people.epfl.ch ) and Claudio Mattiussi ( lis.epfl.ch ).

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A tracked robot learns some of the basics of its environment by exploring. It software "brain" is BECCA, a brain-emulating cognition and control architecture. BECCA gives the robot the ability to learn from its experience and to develop very simple problem solving strategies. Video released as SAND report # 2009-2734 P. For related pages, including source code,background, and publications, please visit www.sandia.gov/rohrer

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Dr Nick Oliver and Dr Pantelis Georgiou talk about the benefits of a silicon pancreas to regulate insulin in people with Type 1 diabetes. For more information please visit www3.imperial.ac.uk

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Launch of the Bio Inspired Ice Vehicle, at Imperial College London. The Ice Vehicle will travel 3600 miles across Antarctica later this year with adventurers Andrew Moon and Andrew Regan.

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www.ted.com A future more beautiful? Architect Thomas Heatherwick shows five recent projects featuring ingenious bio-inspired designs. Some are remakes of the ordinary a bus, a bridge, a power station ... And one is an extraordinary pavilion, the Seed Cathedral, a celebration of growth and light.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at www.ted.com

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National Academy of Engineering 2011 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium September 19-21, 2011 Google, Inc. Mountain View, California Ultra Low Power Biomedical and Bio-inspired Systems September 21, 2011 Presented by Dr. Rahul Sarpeshkar. ABSTRACT: Google hosted 100 attendees of the 2011 Nat'l Academy of Engineering's US Frontiers of Engineering symposium (FOE) at our Mountain View office and Dinah's Garden Hotel in Palo Alto. The symposium is an annual three-day meeting that brings together 100 of the nation's outstanding young engineers (ages 30-45) from industry, academia, and government to discuss pioneering technical and leading-edge research in various engineering fields and industry sectors. About the speaker: Dr. Rahul Sarpeshkar is an Associate Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His talk discusses how analog, RF, and bio-inspired circuits and architectures have led to and are leading to novel systems for ultra-low-power biomedical applications. Examples from systems for bionic ear processors for the deaf, brain--machine interfaces for the blind and paralyzed,body sensor networks for cardiac monitoring, and in circuits for systems biology and synthetic biology were also presented.

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Video showing RatSLAM mapping a Brisbane suburb using only the inbuilt web cam in a laptop mounted on the top of a car. We are now based at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. These results are from the following paper: MJ Milford, G. Wyeth, "Mapping a Suburb with a Single Camera using a Biologically Inspired SLAM System", IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 24 (5), Special Issue on Visual SLAM (2008) For more information on RatSLAM go to: ratslam.itee.uq.edu.au www.itee.uq.edu.au

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Newer technology and bio-inspired design principles mean that we can safely fly further than before under our own power and with greater agility. Watch and see if you agree.

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Dr. Russ Tedrake (MIT) and Dr. Jerry Pratt (IHMC) are working on a bio-inspired ostrich robot that should be able to achieve running speeds in excess of 20 mph. More info: www.ihmc.us www.plasticpals.com

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Nokia Distinguished Lecture: Naomi Leonard on Collective Motion and Sensing Networks in Nature and Robotics Naomi Leonard Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Princeton University Abstract: From bird flocks to fish schools, animals move together and respond to their environment in remarkable ways; their natural collective motion patterns appear well choreographed and their collective survival strategies seem ingenious. Animal group behaviors inspire design for mobile multi-agent robotic systems, where demanding cooperative sensing tasks, such as exploration and sampling in an uncertain and dynamic environment, find their analogue in natural aggregation behaviors, such as foraging and feeding. However, bio-inspiration of this kind is not transparent because the natural design mechanisms are not well understood. The joint challenge is to explain the enabling mechanisms in animal groups and to define provable mechanisms for robotic groups. And this suggests an integrated approach: formal bio-inspired models and analysis tools derived to synthesize collective robotic motion and exploration can be used to evaluate design hypotheses for animal groups; subsequent revelations from the biology will in turn inspire new approaches for robotic systems. I will discuss mobile robot and animal networks using a common mathematical framework that builds on coupled oscillator dynamics and communication graphs. I will describe application to an adaptive ocean sampling network, a successful <b>...</b>

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Recent work suggests that wings can be used to prolong the jumps of miniature jumping robots. However, no functional miniature jumping robot has been presented so far that can successfully apply this hybrid locomotion principle. In this publication, we present the development and characterization of the 'EPFL jumpglider', a miniature robot that can prolong its jumps using steered hybrid jumping and gliding locomotion over varied terrain. For example, it can safely descend from elevated positions such as stairs and buildings and propagate on ground with small jumps. The publication presents a systematic evaluation of three biologically inspired wing folding mechanisms and a rigid wing design. Based on this evaluation, two wing designs are implemented and compared

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One of three biologically inspired deployable structure used to open the wings of the EPFL jumpglider. For further information and scientific publications, see kovac.me

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Researchers at Harvard's Wyss Institute have combined microfabrication techniques from the computer industry with modern tissue engineering techniques, human cells and a plain old vacuum pump to create a living, breathing human lung-on-a-chip. The device mimics the most active part of the lung, the boundary between the air sac and the bloodstream. More at wyss.harvard.edu

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American researchers have created a robotic jellyfish, named Robojelly, which not only exhibits characteristics ideal to use in underwater search and rescue operations, but could, theoretically at least, never run out of energy thanks to it being fuelled by hydrogen. The video, provided by researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas and Virginia Tech, shows the potential of the robot as it is powered by electricity. The paper, published in IOP Publishing's journal Smart Materials and Structures, can be downloaded from iopscience.iop.org "Hydrogen fuel-powered bell segments of biomimetic jellyfish" Tadesse Y et al 2012 Smart Mater. Struct. 21 045013

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Harvard researchers have created a soft robot inspired by animals like starfish and worms. Read more: spectrum.ieee.org

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DASH (Dynamic Autonomous Sprawled Hexapod) is a resilient high-speed 16-gram hexapedal robot. Developed by P. Birkmeyer & RS Fearing, Biomimetic Millisystems Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley. Video presented at IEEE IROS 2009. Read more robot news at spectrum.ieee.org

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roboseed.com The culmination of 3.5 years of research has led to controllable monocopter that can autorotate like a maple seed (Acer diabolicum Blume) and fly like a helicopter (hover and forward flight). The vehicle, invented at the University of Maryland, Aerospace Engineering Autonomous Vehicle Laboratory and Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center, is the smallest and most capable to date as it meets most of the challenges set forth by DARPA's nano-air-vehicle program.

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A team led by Georgia Tech School of Physics Assistant Professor Daniel Goldman has conducted physics and robotics experiments and created computer simulations to better understand how objects move through complex environments, like the debris after a natural disaster. Using a robot they built that can penetrate and "swim" through granular material, they show that by varying the shape of the robot's head or by tilting it up and down, they can control the robot's vertical movement. Read more about Georgia Tech's sandbots: spectrum.ieee.org

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This 22cm, 1.5gram gliding robot can autonomously detect and fly towards a light source. Its tail is acutated using a novel 0.2gram Shape Memory Alloy (muscle wire) acutator. For more inforamation about its context and other bioinspired jumping and flying robots, please visit lis.epfl.ch

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Rock on! Joey, Rock on! A Rock Star is Born. Joey Chaos, Hanson Robotics latest robot, was introduced at the RoboBusiness Conference & Expo 2007 in Boston, MA, and is the most recent member of Hanson's robotic family. Hanson Robotics was founded for one purpose: to design, develop, produce and distribute revolutionary, interactive bio-inspired conversational robots, including the world-famous Albert-Hubo. Hanson's family of anthropomorphic robots display a unique, artificial subconscious, partly due to their cognitive understanding of language-based interactive speech, conversational capabilities and genuine eye contact, coupled with a full range of human facial expressions thanks to the development of Frubber™, or "flesh rubber", their proprietary spongy, structured elastic polymer that expertly mimics the movement of real human musculature and skin using 1/20th the power of other existing materials. Hanson's robots exhibit the highest level of physical functionality in the industry using an advanced motion-control system to walk, talk, maintain eye contact, recognize faces and speech patterns, and simulate a real person's personality. All of this is achieved through our advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) software architecture. All of Hanson's robots have a cognitive understanding of the English language, can make eye contact with people, recognize faces and capture the attention of their conversation partner by using a full range of human-like facial expressions <b>...</b>

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Acroban is a lightweight compliant humanoïd robot. It is capable of semi-passive dynamic movement, including semi-passive dynamic walking. Equipped with a multi-articulated vertebral column, its bio-inspired design relies heavily on the use of adequate morphology and materials for robustness and adaptivity to external perturbations. This allows not only for advanced motor skills, but also affords a new kind of physical human-robot interaction which is made possible by the ability of the human to modify the state (joint positions) of the robot by a direct physical manipulation, thanks to compliance. In this way, joints become the interface between the robot and the human: They make possible the exchange of analogical information. Interestingly, the motors, material, and electronics of Acroban are all low-cost. This allows us to show that it is actually possible to build such robust compliant motor skills and generate original life-like movements with basic affordable components if they are adequately chosen, combined and controlled. Furthermore, Acroban provokes spontaneous highly positive emotional reactions, especially in children. Yet, as opposed to many other robots, its morphology is neither roundish nor cute. He has no big eyes. He is just made of metal, and its appearance shows it explicitly. At first glance, its visual appearance creates low expectation of intelligence and life-likeness. But when it begins to move and one can touch it, its natural dynamics, much <b>...</b>

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Autonomous construction of a staircase to scale a cliff of unknown height. The TERMES robot (Kali) detects unclimbable surfaces and uses previous experience to determine the next building sequence. The robot does this using only on-board IR range/pattern sensors (downwards and forwards) and internal tilt sensor.

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A Rock Star is Born, Rock on! Joey Chaos, Hanson Robotics latest robot, was introduced at the RoboBusiness Conference & Expo 2007 in Boston, MA, and is the most recent member of Hanson's robotic family. Hanson Robotics was founded for one purpose: to design, develop, produce and distribute revolutionary, interactive bio-inspired conversational robots, including the world-famous Albert-Hubo. Hanson's family of anthropomorphic robots display a unique, artificial subconscious, partly due to their cognitive understanding of language-based interactive speech, conversational capabilities and genuine eye contact, coupled with a full range of human facial expressions thanks to the development of Frubber™, or "flesh rubber", their proprietary spongy, structured elastic polymer that expertly mimics the movement of real human musculature and skin using 1/20th the power of other existing materials. Hanson's robots exhibit the highest level of physical functionality in the industry using an advanced motion-control system to walk, talk, maintain eye contact, recognize faces and speech patterns, and simulate a real person's personality. All of this is achieved through our advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) software architecture. All of Hanson's robots have a cognitive understanding of the English language, can make eye contact with people, recognize faces and capture the attention of their conversation partner by using a full range of human-like facial expressions. Pretty amazing <b>...</b>

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Weighing less than one-half pound with only two moving parts, Lockheed Martin's Samarai Micro Air Vehicle flew publicly for the first time at the AUVSI conference in Washington DC Samarai is a biologically inspired design, combining eons of evolution with sophisticated engineering.

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Airbus Bio-Index shows there is more to do in educating children about nature. The global survey of more than 10000 children and young people worldwide aged 5-18 has been conducted as part of Airbus' work with the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The Airbus Bio-Index shows there is work to be done. The next generation has a reputation for being glued to the virtual world and the survey highlights the implications this has for the future of the real world. When asked to rank what was most important to them, ten times more children ranked watching TV or playing computer games first compared to those who chose saving the environment (40 percent and 4 percent respectively). And while species extinction rates are estimated to be up to 1000 times the natural rate, only 9 percent ranked looking after animals as most important; 15 percent did not know what endangered species implied. The results of the Airbus Bio-Index was launched at United Kingdoms London Zoo by actress and environmentalist Daryl Hannah famed for her award-winning role as a mermaid in 1984 fantasy Splash and explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, with the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Hannah said: Biodiversity loss is a global crisis and it's of crucial importance that we do all we can to nurture our environment back to health. The Airbus Bio-Index will help inform and empower the future generation of environmental champions to take bold and effective action." On a <b>...</b>

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www.emory.edu The Emory Bio-Inspired Renewable Energy Center studies photosynthesis and other tricks of Mother Nature, with the goal of tapping sunlight to generate cheap and clean sources of hydrogen fuel. October 2009

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This video shows a telemanipulation scenario with the final VI-Bot active exoskeleton. The project VI-Bot takes into account and evolves the current state of the art of haptic interfaces both from the hardware and software point of view. The haptic device, namely the Exoskeleton and its control system, thus allow a complex interaction with the user, who is enabled perform a teleoperation task with a target robotic system. The Exoskeleton is designed on the base of the human arm anatomy. The device is thought to be wearable, lightweight, and adaptable to different user sizes. Its kinematic structure is configured to constrain the movements of the user as less as possible, while offering an high level of comfort within the overall arm workspace. The control strategy, based on a combination of classical and bio-inspired techniques, allows a better harmonization with the human arm's nervous system and additionally implements different safety mechanisms. The development of a general position/force mapping algorithm provides intuitive and effective teleoperation of any complex robotic system of any given morphology. For more information please visit www.dfki.de

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Jumping can be a very efficient mode of locomotion for small robots to overcome large obstacles and travel in natural, rough terrain. We present the development and characterization of a novel 5cm, 7g jumping robot. It can jump obstacles more than 27 times its own size and outperforms existing jumping robots by one order of magnitude with respect to jump height per weight and jump height per size. It employs elastic elements in a four bar linkage leg system to allow for very powerful jumps and adjustment of the jumping force, take-off angle and force profile during the acceleration phase. This 5min video includes footage of jumping desert locusts, Computer Aided Design (CAD) animations, close ups of the jumps using high speed imaging at 1000fps and the robot moving in rough terrain.

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Locomotion of a 20-legged millirobot inspired by centipedes. The Harvard Microrobotics Lab is part of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS, seas.harvard.edu) at Harvard University, and a core member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering (wyss.harvard.edu).

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Hosts: Marc Pelletier and Justin Sanchez, Ph.D., assistant professor of pediatrics, neuroscience, and biomedical engineering at the University of Florida Neuroprosthetics Research Group Dr. Rahul Sarpeshkar talks about how to improve electronic systems using biologically inspired design. Guest: Rahul Sarpeshkar, Ph.D., associate professor, of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Weinvite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes. Comments and suggestions on Futures in Biotech. For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/biotech. Also thanks to Phil Pelletier and Will Hall for the great themes. Thanks to Cachefly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast.

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Dr. Pantelis Georgiou of The Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London talks about the development of the worlds first Bio-inspired Artificial Pancreas for Type I diabetes which mimics the physiology of biological beta cells.

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Joanna Aizenberg displays fascinating processes in nature, and shares with us how we can mimic these processes to improve our daily lives (without the hassle of intellectual property issues!). Joanna is a pioneer in the rapidly developing field of bio-inspired materials science and engineering. She is the Amy Smith Berylson Professor of Material Sciences at Harvard's School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, the Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, has authored 90 publications and holds 25 patents. About TEDx, x=independently organize event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x=independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

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RoboSwift flight tests on March 5, 2008. Pilot announces in-flight morphing of the wing at 0.42. Nonpowered gliding flights at 0.22 and 1.14. Cameraman is still learning... www.roboswift.nl

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Complete video at: fora.tv Former NASA administrator Daniel Goldin says solving the dilemma of landing on Mars with the Pathfinder was as simple as defining the problem, and then forgetting old techniques. ----- Daniel Goldin was the longest-serving Administrator in NASA's history, presiding over the agency from 1992-2001. He currently serves as Chairman and CEO of the Intellisis Companies which focus on high-tech consulting and the development of biologically inspired technologies, including the next generation of computers and robots. Goldin is credited with transforming NASA into a fiscally responsible and scientifically innovative agency. Among other accomplishments, he initiated the Origins Program to study how our solar system formed, how life on Earth began and to explore whether it exists elsewhere in the universe. He was also a vigorous proponent for increased exploration to determine if water and life may have ever existed elsewhere in our own solar system.

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A slide show presented at the international conference on Chaos Revolution in Science, Technology, and Society (ICR2011) held in the University of Indonesia on Feb. 22, 2011. Invited Talk: "Amoeba-based Chaotic NeuroComputing: SpatioTemporally-correlated Search Dynamics for Optimization Problems" Presenter: Masashi Aono (RIKEN Advanced Science Institute) Contents: 0) True Slime Mold Physarum Polycephalum 1) Experimental Results on Traveling Salesman Problem Solution and others 2) Mathematical Model (coupled ODE oscillators) of Amoeba Computer 3) Amoeba-inspired Algorithm for Multi-armed Bandit Problem (to be uploaded) Song (mixed after the conference): - "Beaver" Kid Spatula

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Insects rely primarily on asymmetric wing motions to stabilize and steer. This video clip shows a robotic device demonstrating asymmetric stroke amplitudes, just one of the many parameters of wing motion insects can vary. The publication, "Distributed power and control actuation in the thoracic mechanics of a robotic insect" by Ben Finio and Robert Wood of the Harvard Microrobotics Lab, is available at the Journal of Bioinspiration and Biomimetics: iopscience.iop.org The Harvard Microrobotics Lab is part of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS, seas.harvard.edu) at Harvard University, and a core member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering (wyss.harvard.edu).

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This is part 2 of the analog robot series. This video demonstrates using a continuously variable oscillating waveform for biologically inspired robotic locomotion. A background in BEAM style robotics and the ability to read electronic schematics will be helpful.

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A collection of Maveric's capabilities and features, shown at the Autonomous Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) 2009 conference and expo.

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A 30-gram indoor airplane equipped with two 1D cameras for collision avoidance. More info: lis.epfl.ch

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