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Video: A beetle-inspired hack could create next-gen robots – Inverse
Researchers slow down the dance of click beetles to better understand what makes them fly through the air. This understanding could inform future robot design.
A click beetle
rolling around on its back may look pitiful but don’t be fooled. Beyond the hard exterior of their bodies lies a jack-in-the-box-like mechanism that, once snapped, springs them high into the air with a signature click!
Scientists have known of this click-trick, but what they’ve struggled to understand is precisely how and whythese beetles spring into the air. However, using high-speed x-ray technology and fundamental equations of motion, a team of mechanical engineers recently examined…
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