March of the Sandbots

Daniel Goldman, Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus
Haldun Komsuoglu, University of Pennsylvania
Daniel Koditschek, University of Pennsylvania

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Copyright 2009 IEEE. Reprinted from:
Goldman, D.; Komsuoglu, H.; Koditschek, D., "March of the sandbots," Spectrum, IEEE , vol.46, no.4, pp.30-35, April 2009
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Abstract

Goldman at Georgia Tech, Koditschek and Komsuoglu at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, and other collaborators - are hoping that by studying the zebra-tailed lizard and a menagerie of other desert-dwelling creatures, we can create more agile versions of their six-legged robot, SandBot.