Engineering Magazine: Fall 2019

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ANIMAL KINGDOM 2.0

In Mechanical Engineering’s Aaron Johnson’s course 24-775 Robot Design and Experimentation graduate students applied what they learned at Carnegie Mellon to build bio-inspired robots. Inspired by the brittle star, touch sensors on the limbs of this legged robot offer an alternative to remote sensing, allowing for omnidirectional movement and obstacle avoidance.


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