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Published online 8 March 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070305-9
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Robo-salamander goes swimming
Bot throws light on the evolution of walking.
It's yellow, modular, and can both walk and swim: it is Salamander robotica, the fruition of four years of research and one clever theory.
Auke Jan Ijspeert of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and his team made the robot to help test their theories on the evolution of walking: that famous moment when the first 'fish' scurried up onto land.
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