New mathematical model links up slithering with some kinds of swimming and walking, and it could make programming many-legged robots easier.
Robotics
Walking and slithering aren’t as different as you think
In the news: Michigan Engineering experts July 25-29
Highlights include CNN and Popular Science.
In the news: Michigan Engineering experts July 18-22
Highlights include The New York Times and National Geographic.
‘Fake’ data helps robots learn the ropes faster
A way to expand training data sets for manipulation tasks improves the performance of robots by 40% or more
In the news: Michigan Engineering experts June 6-10
Highlights include the New York Times.
New U-M robotics undergraduate program to meet surging demand for roboticists
An inclusive-by-design degree program centers on how an embodied intelligence senses, reasons, acts and works with humans to establish a pipeline of people-first roboticists.
