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"This morphology gives the robot the mechanical properties from which cats benefit, that’s to say a marked running ability and elasticity in the right spots, to ensure stability," said Alexander Sprowitz, a Biorob scientist, in a press release.It was the second encounter with police this year for road sweeper, who was charged in March with disorderly intoxication and resisting an officer in Miami. "The robot is thus naturally more autonomous.Illinois State Police say Rodriguez was ticketed on Friday for driving under the influence, epoxy coated rebar and improper lane usage."Clocking in at speeds of up to 3.1 miles per hour, the cat can travel seven times the length of its body each second. That makes the robot much slower than the common housecat, which can move about 29 body lengths per second, but still the fastest of all robots its size.The new robot is not only fast – it’s also light and stable,To use one with a sprinkler, you need to turn on the water before you put the sprinkler in place. When you turn the water off, the Flexible hose will contract, and it may pull the sprinkler through your garden. and researchers hope that later versions will go on to be used in exploration and search-and-rescue missions.

"It’s still in the experimental stages,MacAdam described the area as flat wire and said the cause of the fire is unknown, but is under investigation. but the long-term goal of the cheetah-cub robot is to be able to develop fast, agile, ground-hugging machines for use in exploration,But if you try to do something such as fill up a kiddie pool with the valve fully open, the Marine hose may shrink because of lower water pressure. And using them with sprinklers also poses a challenge. for example for search and rescue in natural disaster situations," said Biorob director Auke Ijspeert, in a press release. "Studying and using the principles of the animal kingdom to develop new solutions for use in robots is the essence of our research."This is not the first time that animals have served as inspiration for agile robots. Earlier this month, researchers at Carnegie Mellon developed a snake-like robot that might also eventually be used in search-and-rescue missions. Cats, too, are a popular basis for robotic invention. Last month, MIT scientists debuted a cheetah-like robot that can reach speeds of 13.7 miles per hour – when stabilized with parallel support bars and running on a treadmill. Good news, for those of us needing rescuing from our treadmills.

Memorial University of Newfoundland has lost a two-metre long, bright-yellow robot in the Atlantic Ocean.The university’s Autonomous Ocean Systems Laboratory says it lost contact with the $200,000 unmanned, underwater vehicle in Conception Bay on Sunday."Somewhere between Foxtrap and maybe as far north as Portugal Cove, maybe even a little bit beyond that," said project manager Neil RiggsThe university is asking members of the public to keep an eye out for it because it’s possible the lost vehicle has washed up on a beach.Riggs said the robot, which is also known as a glider, is torpedo-shaped but there is no reason to fear it.In testing the durability of its upcoming fullsize Transit vans, Ford has begun using autonomous robotic technology to pilot vehicles through the punishing courses of its Michigan Proving Grounds test facility. The autonomous tech allows Ford to run more durability tests in a single day than it could with human drivers, as well as create even more challenging tests that wouldn't be safe to run with a human behind the wheel.