Follow Dailymail, a falcon robot called SNAG, using a 3D printed skeleton, took a total of 20 times to perfect. The motor and line on the robot are used to replace the muscles and tendons in the bird’s body.
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Robot has falcon-like legs |
Thanks to the 4-wing drone system, SNAG can hover around, land on many different surfaces, and pick up objects with its feet.
Research on the falcon robot has been published in the journal Science Robotics. Study author William Roderick said mimicking the flight and landing movements of birds is not easy. Over millions of years of evolution, this animal has become so adept at flying that it makes everything seem simple. Real-life birds can land on any tree branch, whether the surface is rough, wet, fringed, or covered with moss, so the Stanford engineers were very interested in this from a technical point of view. art.
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SNAG robot design |
SNAG has an advantage over conventional flying robots mainly because of its ability to land on multiple surfaces during flight to save energy. Each of SNAG’s legs has two motors, one to help it move back and forth on a branch, the other to help the robot grasp objects, inspired by the tendons around the ankles of birds.
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After the robot feet land on the legs, the motor on the ankle will fix the position, the accelerometer on the right leg will automatically activate a balance algorithm to stabilize the SNAG’s posture.
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Robot landing motion |
“When the robot lands at a stop, the accelerometer in the legs will sense the impact, starting the balancing process,” explains Roderick.
The Stanford team hopes SNAG will help rescue in remote, difficult places, or use robots to monitor climate, animals and natural ecosystems, such as preventing wildfires. .
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