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Most robots rely on complex control systems, supplied by AI or otherwise, which govern their movement. These centralized electronic brains need time to react to changes in their environment and produce movements that are often awkwardly, finally, robotics.
It should not be so. A team of Dutch scientists from the Fom Institute for Molecular and Atomic Physics (AMOLF) in Amsterdam has built a new type of robot that can run, review obstacles and even swim, all driven only by the air flow. And that makes all this brainless at all.
Heaven’s dance physics
“I was in a laboratory, working on another project, and I had to fold a tube to prevent the air from passing it. To see what was going on with the tube, Comretto installed a high -speed camera and recorded the movement. He found that the movement results from the interaction between air pressure inside the tube and the state of the tube itself.
When there was a fold in the tube, the growing pressure pushed this fold along the length of the tube. This caused the pressure to decrease, which allowed a new hinge to appear and the cycle is repeated. “We were super excited because we saw this autonomous, periodic and asymmetrical movement,” Comoreto told Ars.
The first reason for the excitement of Comretto was that the swing tube of his laboratory was motivated by the type of physics of the air flow that Peter Marshall, Doron Gazit and Aireh exploited to build their famous “Fly Guys” for the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996. Human organizations.
