Tag: Super Powers
Let’s give them super powers…
by jojokaffe on Jun.08, 2009, under Robots
the better to hunt us with.
Yes, now scientists are cooking up ways to teach robots to
walk on water!
No, I’m not kidding. Walk on freaking water!
The only guy I ever heard of doing this was considered pretty freaking special, but no, let’s figure out how to get robots to do it.
A robot that can walk on water: such a miracle is one step closer to reality, thanks to some new research that learns from the work nature has done with water striders. Walking on water may seem like a superpower and the name scientists have give the property of the striders’ legs is fitting: super-hydrophobia.
Super-hydrophobic legs repel water, and it is exactly this super property that scientists have tried to simulate with a (you guessed it) supercomputer. Professor of Chemistry at University of Nebraska-Lincoln Xiao Cheng Zeng worked together with colleagues — and the supercomputer — at Japan’s RIKEN Institute, Takahiro Koishi, Shigenori Fujikawa, and Toshikazu Ebisuzaki and Kenji Yasuoka of Keio University.
Super hero powers: Robots – 1, Humans – 0
Thanks guys!
