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UC Berkeley biologist Robert Full shares his fascination with spiny cockroach legs that allow them to scuttle at full speed across loose mesh and gecko feet that have billions of nano-bristles to run straight up walls. His talk, complete with wonderful slow-mo video of cockroach, crab and gecko gaits, explains his goal of creating the perfect robotic "distributed foot."

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thattechguy : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

thattechguy

Hidden (Show Comment) -11 votes

274 days 5 hours ago...

sorry...I couldn`t finish this. I got sick of hearing his heavy breathing, but I think I read about this somewhere else.

NYCJockCub : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

NYCJockCub

17 votes NegativePositive

274 days 5 hours ago...

Slow start, but excellent argument for "curiosity based research"

SacKings384 : LVL 38: VP 4.6: said:

SacKings384

28 votes NegativePositive

273 days 19 hours ago...

How odd that his last name is Full. It looks like he`s never been full his entire life.

ok123jump : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

ok123jump

6 votes NegativePositive

273 days 7 hours ago...

A distributed foot is a great idea... so long as your robot doesn`t need hands.

Why are we spending millions of dollars to create a crawling robot when Asimo will soon be able to crawl on his hands and knees AND he can make me a sandwich when I`m hungry?

diggsucks : LVL 22: VP 3.1: said:

diggsucks

6 votes NegativePositive

273 days 6 hours ago...

This was absolutely excellent: 100/5!

Thorno : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

Thorno

3 votes NegativePositive

272 days 10 hours ago...

And the award for saying foot the most times in 20 minutes goes to...

naggytaggy : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

naggytaggy

4 votes NegativePositive

271 days 13 hours ago...

I thought this was actually really entertaining

GainGreenCrk : LVL 27: VP 3.6: said:

GainGreenCrk

5 votes NegativePositive

271 days 7 hours ago...

100/5. ^^^Rather fund this guys research than a war. Least I`d have a band aide that isn`t painful to remove. Plus can Asimo climb 90°?

delt_osvp : LVL 42: VP 5: said:

delt_osvp

-7 votes NegativePositive

271 days 5 hours ago...

Robert Full Of Shit

Miles : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

Miles

-4 votes NegativePositive

271 days 5 hours ago...

Perhaps in time Man will learn to appreciate the wonderful gifts given him by our fanciful mother named Earth, a beautiful creature whose knack for civilisation and organisation of species and plant in many forms of accordance and certitude has earned her such definite and relevant monikers as Earth and Mother Earth. Only time, himself the cold austere and indifferent man of the figurative hour, can see with his eyes made of sand and seconds whether our fortunes do indeed lie in the realm where things that exist do indeed lie.

meiguo-ren : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

meiguo-ren

3 votes NegativePositive

271 days 3 hours ago...

my guess: 30-40 years and human infantry will be obsolete. i hope.

MeBored : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

MeBored

0 votes NegativePositive

271 days 2 hours ago...

he doesn`t really make me believe that he knows anything about movement, don`t know why...

stndspec : LVL 31: VP 4: said:

stndspec

0 votes NegativePositive

271 days ago...

TED vids make me =)

Dooobs : LVL 24: VP 3.3: said:

Dooobs

0 votes NegativePositive

270 days 22 hours ago...

Thats really amazing.

Nuff Said.

Godfather2729 : LVL 17: VP 2.6: said:

Godfather2729

1 votes NegativePositive

270 days 22 hours ago...

The sound @3:04 is Robert Full digesting.

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