Designers:
Biorobotics Laboratory
National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Robotics
Home page - biorob.epfl.ch/pleurobot
https://youtu.be/lfBWs8lWmv0
Introducing Pleurobot
Published on Oct 14, 2014
https://youtu.be/OOvaumdRg9Q
Print Pleurobot at NCCR site visit
Published on Oct 14, 2014
https://youtu.be/b8hoSiigjtw
The Pleurobot (biorob lab) in action at EPFL in Switzerland.
Published on May 21, 2014
https://youtu.be/p9XolXkA0kA
Pleurobot: Multimodal locomotion in a bioinspired robot
Published on Feb 19, 2015
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The Pleurobot is a bioinspired robot being developed by the BioRob at EPFL and NCCR Robotics. Taking it’s cues from the salamander, the Pleurobot is a walking robot that can change its gait to help it to navigate uneven terrain, and is currently learning to swim. Watch the video to see the researchers discuss what they are doing with the Pleurobot and how they hope to improve it in future.
Article "Pleurobot Is an Eerily Lifelike Robotic Salamander"
by Evan Ackerman
March 3, 2015
Article "Pleurobot Mimics a Salamander, Allowing It to Easily Move From Land to Water"
by Marshall Smith
March 5, 2015
https://youtu.be/zcAR_2bNojE
Meet Pleurobot, an amphibious robot!
Published on Nov 13, 2015
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We meet Pleurobot, a Salamander-like robot that can both walk on land and swim in the water (with a wetsuit!) Kishore, our new science correspondent, chats with professor Auke Ijspeert of the EPFL about how Pluerobot's movements were programmed and how biorobotics engineers studied the physiology of salamanders in making this robot.
https://youtu.be/K926HAKRFvw
A robot that runs and swims like a salamander, Auke Ijspeert
Published on Feb 18, 2016
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Roboticist Auke Ijspeert designs biorobots, machines modeled after real animals that are capable of handling complex terrain and would appear at home in the pages of a sci-fi novel. The process of creating these robots leads to better automata that can be used for fieldwork, service, and search and rescue. But these robots don't just mimic the natural world — they help us understand our own biology better, unlocking previously unknown secrets of the spinal cord.
https://youtu.be/jMWMJ1wv9w4
A new robot mimics vertebrate motion
Published on Jun 28, 2016
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Based on X-ray videos, EPFL scientists have built a new robot that mimics how salamanders walk and swim to unprecedented detail: a step towards understanding the evolution of vertebrate locomotion.
https://youtu.be/p_0wnVKGAyY
Salamanders are cool... Robots are cool... This Salamander robot is awesome!
Published on May 25, 2017
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This amazing robot is helping scientists study this amphibian.
https://youtu.be/xztrtNxyZqQ
A robot recreates the walk of a 300-million-year-old animal fossilized animal
Uploaded on Jan 14, 2019
Article "Fascinating Experiment Uses a Robot to Recreate the Walking Style of an Early Land Dweller"
by George Dvorsky
January 16, 2019