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How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls
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How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls

Animal Movement and the Robots of the Future

Princeton UP, 2018 más...


Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Innovative
  • Scientific
  • Concrete Examples

Recommendation

David L. Hu’s exploration of animal movement, its study, and its application to robotics and medicine is a joy to read – informed, witty, unpretentious and original. He cites numerous fascinating, bizarre twists from studying animal movement. For example, some professors fear three-day holiday weekends because the extra day gives laboratory fire ants more time to figure out how to escape. Hu covers many such evocative images and facts about animal locomotion and the implications of related research to engage anyone interested in the hidden realities of animal and human life and the intersection of robotics and natural movement.

Take-Aways

  • Movement is a defining characteristic of all animals.
  • Animal movement studies are hundreds of years old but came of age in the 20th century with high-speed photography and applied mathematics.
  • Understanding how water strider insects walk on water required innovative analysis, which fed into robotics studies.

About the Author

David L. Hu, PhD, is associate professor of fluid dynamics at Georgia Tech.


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