The coolest and most terrifying bionic robots

Original author: Nadia Drake
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Official warning: in view of the onset of the holidays, the translator impudently added from himself to the article an unscientific gag, so its rastak. Measures have already been taken.

When creating a good robot, it is often useful to go outside from a secret laboratory and look around for inspiration. Borrowing TTX and perks from insects, birds, fish and mammals, gloomy geniuses sometimes created robots that not only swim and jump , but also those who steal books and behave very nicely .

One gifted Japanese citizen, for example, created an 11-meter smoking self-propelled car , inspired by the appearance of a rhinoceros beetle.

So that the feat of such heroes does not go unnoticed, let's look at the fruits of their labors.



Salamandra robotica II
Muse: Salamander
Cause of coolness: Twisty, amphibious awesomeness

Bright yellow and flexible, this cyber salamander easily overcomes land and water - and can continue to move even if it loses several parts of the body. Developed by the biorobototechnology laboratory at EPFL Switzerland, the salamander can cross the sands of deserts and the waters of the oceans (for the time being 1:10 000 on the layout).

Scientists hide the true motives for creating this robot and cynically argue that the purpose of the experiment was to understand how the brain controls the coordination of movements when moving.






RoboBees
Muse: Fly
Cause of coolness: The smallest robotic insects, at the moment (of those that have been taken off) The

swarm of tiny automated insects, each slightly larger than a penny, was released by scientists from Harvard University. Each robomuha weighs 80 milligrams, has a wingspan of 3 centimeters and makes 120 flaps every second.

Like real flies, these robotic insects can swarm and perform aerobatics. Unlike real flies, the wings of robots are driven by a piezoelectric activator - a ceramic strip that expands and contracts under the influence of current. Researchers have developed a piezoelectric actuator because robotic bees are too small for standard power sources, but too large for microelectromechanical ones.

Although the bees are now remotely controlled, the team is working to create a tiny bee brain that will control the bee in such useful tasks as crop pollination, search and rescue operations, environmental monitoring, elimination of terrorists and industrial espionage .






SnakeBot
Muse: Snakes
How scary: Strangles

A very useful thing needed in any household. If you throw this snake into someone’s head, it wraps around its neck and strangles it.

Developed by the Carnegie Mellon University team, the snake robot can climb trees (or your foot), climb through pipes, swim, crawl and wriggle in every way. Extremely useful data and skills make the snake an ideal tool for exploring inaccessible places, such as caves or the lower floors of a destroyed building.






Rat-Bot
Muse: Rat
Than cool: Mustache and sweet

Instead of cameras, the cyber rat uses his mustache to sneak in the dark like a real rat. Moving five times per second, a wonderful mustache allows the rat not to collide with objects. Designed by the team at Bristol Robotics Lab, tailless rats are amazing. This is his only plus so far.






Bot Pack
Muse: Dog and a donkey
What terrifies: A poor builder

In an earlier incarnation, the headless BigDog RoboMule simply trailed behind an ordinary American soldier, methodically carrying one and a half centners of good and justice over any landscape, at a speed of 6.5 km / h towards the intended target.

But the famous guys from Boston Dynamics did not stand still and ... added a fifth leg to the cyber dog . When the ammunition is exhausted, it can throw bricks, cinder blocks and other building materials at the enemy. It looks scary. Whether a mechanical hand can show indecent gestures to the enemy, the manufacturer does not specify.






Robo-Ants
Muse: Ants
Cool than that: Robots exchange information and jointly find a route

Robots the size of a piece of refined sugar together find the best route. It seems to be nothing intriguing, but how it looks from the outside!

Instead of pheromones, robots use light, marking their route. Light sensors look for the path of previous robots, trampled by light, leaving incomparable sparkling paths in the maze. It does not leave a feeling that robots were made by people who did not know by heart about LSD.






Spiderbot
Muse: Sarah Kerrigan Spiders
Than Cool: Excellent protection of personal space

Dutch designer Anuk Wippres and Austrian software developer Daniel Schatzmer made a real revolution in the fashion world. This dress slipped onto the catwalk at the beginning of this year. The combination of sensors and legs protects the wearer from subjects that come too close. Connoisseurs of high fashion are looking forward to new firmware for the dress.






Bug-Bots
Muse: Bugs
What is scary: Kills people

These flying unmanned mini-planes in the cartoon are called MicroAircraft. The US Air Force even built a "micro bird aviary" for express delivery of bugs to the point where it is urgently needed to kill a number of bad uncles.

A swarm of these bugs can sit in ambush for weeks, and then deliver a mortal blow with toxic gases. The bugs are masqueradingly disguised against the background of buildings, hiding under the windowsills, penetrate the apartments, in a word, guys - gold, I recommend.






Robuttocks
Muse: Homo sapiens
Than scary: Everyone

And at the end - cyberjop.

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Who is the best?

  • 11.8% Salamandra robotica II (which floats) 349
  • 1.7% RoboBees (small, flies) 52
  • 1.4% SnakeBot (choking) 42
  • 4.1% Rat-Bot (whisker and mil) 121
  • 8.3% Bot Pack (throwing items) 247
  • 2.2% Robo-Ants (good under LSD) 66
  • 10.5% Spiderbot (command zerg) 310
  • 8.6% Bug-Bots (kills people) 254
  • 51% Cyberjop 1503

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