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Mammal-like Tails Most Promising for Acrobatic Robots

February 10, 2025

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Presented by Michigan News

Heavy, muscled lizard tails have inspired many efforts to design robots that use tails for orientation, but an engineering team from the University of Michigan is taking a different approach: modeling their robot tails after the light, tendon-driven tails of mammals like cats. Learn more about how researchers are bridging the gap between biophysics and robotic performance in this research spotlight from Michigan News.

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