Learning from nature to design better robots

Berkeley Talks

English - August 13, 2022 06:28 - 1 hour - 84.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
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Robert Full, a professor of integrative biology and founder of the Center for Interdisciplinary Biological Inspiration in Education and Research at UC Berkeley, discusses how nature and its creatures — cockroaches, squirrels, centipedes, geckos — inspire innovative design in all sorts of useful things, from bomb-detecting, stair-climbing robots to prosthetics and other medical equipment.

Read a transcript and listen to the episode on Berkeley News.

Photo by Tate Lohmiller via Unsplash.

Music by Blue Dot Sessions.

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