Rhex with spikes

Rhex with spikes on a mesh, Daniel Goldman at georgia tech

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Entertainment

Tags:

• biomechanics
• rhex

[loathi]

Our grandparents are obsolete, but we don't get rid of them.

Besides, we are able to make improvements to our human form through genetic modification and bionic implants etc...

[KrykoStorm]

Wtf? There's no animals involved...

[galilsnap]

Why would a robot want to take over the world, anyways? If it becomes sentient/sapient, all we need to do is treat it with respect as another living being. Simple.

[azumen]

@thoughtwaretv Though the specific orders of magnitude are certainly debatable. ;)

[foshizzleweezy]

is that animal abuse?

[thoughtwaretv]

Two days ago Engineers showed Nanotube Circuits could be made en Masse. :)

Sweet, huh.

Lots more at Thoughtware (dot) TV

[thoughtwaretv]

If you'd like to be on the knowing edge of Human Progress, I invite you to Thoughtware (dot) TV

[SolRosenberg84]

>The line between Biological Intelligence and Human Technological Intelligence is blurring.

Very true. I've heard there has been lots of work in nanotech recently on attempting to create systems that work at the molecular levels to produce complexity, basically copying the way evolution works, but at a much faster rate. I think the eventual goal of the project was to produce transistor like units that create and organize themselves, like a self assembling processor.

[IMPERATORTIBERIVS]

The point of this video is the reason why cockroaches have bristles on their legs, I think. I think there are little bristles on RHex's legs which catch on the mesh just like a cockroach's legs would, enabling it to cross the terrain easily.

[thoughtwaretv]

I do appreciate it if you see a piece of rock or a keyboard and see the difference. I look at both and all, and see the similarities. Past the big bang's singularity, we've only just begun to exist and change separately from everything else.

Dumb matter saturates the Universe. Not for long.

The line between Biological Intelligence and Human Technological Intelligence is blurring.

[thoughtwaretv]

[continued response to choowo3]

Your keyboard is but a branch of a technological evolutionary tree, a result of biological evolution and a direct result of human ingenuity. Both Biological Evolution as well as Technological Evolution are a direct result of Universal Cosmic Evolution. If this were not so, neither would exist otherwise.

Yes, you're both made of matter. You both share a singular common point of origin.