Meet Metamorpho: A Robot Simulating Biological Transformation
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Winner of the 2015 Director’s Challenge at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Metamorpho is a robotic platform designed for emulating the developmental induction of locomotor patterns across all animals. The robot will be used in further research.
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