Centipede robots with more legs are better at walking over bumps

The extra legs a robotic has the higher it appears to be at travelling over tough terrain.

Baxi Chong on the Georgia Institute of Know-how and his colleagues constructed a spread of multi-legged robots from 3D-printed physique segments. Every section had two legs and a number of other motors. The robots had between six and 16 legs in whole.

Not one of the robots had any sensors or cameras in order that they couldn’t see their setting and simply moved in pre-programmed approach that mimicked arthropods. The researchers examined …