Teaching a hexapedal robot to walk like a stick insect
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An international research team led by Tohoku University and Thailand's VISTEC successfully taught a six-legged robot to walk across different surfaces by studying and mimicking stick insect locomotion through AI, solving a long-standing challenge in biophilic robotics that previous approaches had left inflexible and species-specific.
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