Robot Salamander May Give Evolution Clues

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The EPFL Salamander Robot walks down to the waters of Lake Geneva. Credit: A. Badertscher EPFL
The EPFL Salamander Robot walks down to the waters of Lake Geneva. Credit: A. Badertscher, EPFL

A group of European researchers has developed a spinal cord model of the salamander and implemented it in a novel amphibious salamander-like robot. The robot changes its speed and gait in response to simple electrical signals, suggesting that the distributed neural system in the spinal cord holds the key to vertebrates’ complex locomotor capabilities.


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