Robots inspired by Nature

The Youtube channel Zeste de science explores all aspects of scientific research, proving that even the most complicated scientific facts can be explained in less than 5 minutes, and that even the most seemingly trivial events of everyday life, if thoroughly studied, can contribute to the biggest technological advances. Episode 14: Researchers in Paris are studying the collective behaviour of red-nose tetras, also known as Hemigrammus bleheri. They discovered that…

Using Nature as a model for better robots? A team of bioroboticists in the South of France have created, for the first time, an autonomous six-legged robot able to—without using GPS—find its way back to its nest using navigation skills inspired by Cataglyphis, the desert ant.

The Youtube channel Zeste de science explores all aspects of scientific research, proving that even the most complicated scientific facts can be explained in less than 5 minutes, and that even the most seemingly trivial events of everyday life, if thoroughly studied, can contribute to the biggest technological advances. Episode 22: What happens when you put several small self-propelled robots together in a corral? Physicists from Bordeaux studied roach-bots and…

In the new ISIR laboratory, mechanical engineers, robotic engineers and electronic engineers manage a robotic assembly line and work especially on bio-inspired robotic. They develop more autonomic robots by taking inspiration from nature and animal behaviour. This film shows the work on an artificial rat.

In order to control cockroaches aggregation, Colette Rivauld from the Laboratory for Ethology, EVolution and Ecology (EVE), uses their own smell. This research belongs to the program Leurre. This program, created in 2002, gathers several European laboratories around the same project: the development of a robot which would provoke cockroaches aggregation.