+and-then Posted December 30, 2013 #1 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Cool idea! http://www.ibtimes.com/nasa-super-ball-bot-can-survive-60-mile-drop-alien-world-without-landing-equipment-1521958 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pallidin Posted December 30, 2013 #2 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Thinking "outside the box" I like it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DieChecker Posted December 30, 2013 #3 Share Posted December 30, 2013 I read about this a couple days ago. Very cool. Interesting engineering solution to the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highdesert50 Posted December 31, 2013 #4 Share Posted December 31, 2013 I was initially thinking they might have modeled the movement based on that of the sea urchin, but after viewing the video, their solution is brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hankenhunter Posted December 31, 2013 #5 Share Posted December 31, 2013 Could this technology be applied to save people from high rise building fires? Boing, boing? Hank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundew Posted January 14, 2014 #6 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Could this technology be applied to save people from high rise building fires? Boing, boing? Hank The proposed robots are only a few pounds, humans are much heavier, to scale this up to the size to protect a body falling from a building would probably mean they would have to be huge and therefore impractical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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