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Airicist
15th October 2015, 22:04
Article "Jumping Spider Robot Uses Tether for Controlled Jumps (https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/jumping-spider-robot-uses-tether-for-controlled-jumps)"

by Evan Ackerman
October 6, 2015

Airicist
15th October 2015, 22:06
https://youtu.be/lclJXo8AbSw

Spider-inspired jumping robot

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“A Spider-Inspired Dragline Enables Aerial Pitch Righting in a Mobile Robot,” by Stacey Shield, Callen Fisher, and Amir Patel from the University of Cape Town in South Africa, was presented last week at IROS 2015 in Hamburg, Germany.