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Niba Audrey Nirmal: Host
Emma Dauster: Writer
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Emma Dauster: Writer
Attabey RodrÃguez BenÃtez: Script Editor
Kyle Nackers: Fact Checker
Bonnie Meyer: Managing Editor
Savannah Geary: Editor, Associate Producer
Sarah Suta: Producer
Caitlin Hofmeister: Executive Producer
Hank Green: Executive Producer
Source:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abe5753?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed
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Squirrels are doing parkour in the name of science and robotics.
When a squirrel jumps from one branch to another they take a lot of factors into account. How far is the gap?
How sturdy are the branches? How else can I get there? And they have to balance all of this just to decide where to jump off the branch.
So to put the squirrel's abilities to the test, Berkeley scientists used nuts as bait to get them to jump to a branch that was farther away. And to overcome the challenge squirrels propelled themselves along the horizontal wall next to their branch in true parkour style to bridge the gap. And if they landed awkwardly at first, they did a great job of learning from their past mistakes.
And the researchers plan to feed these parkour moves into a model for robots in the hopes that like squirrels, these robots can do the same quick thinking to assess terrains like after a natural disaster. So you can be on the lookout for parkour robots in the not-so-distant future.
When a squirrel jumps from one branch to another they take a lot of factors into account. How far is the gap?
How sturdy are the branches? How else can I get there? And they have to balance all of this just to decide where to jump off the branch.
So to put the squirrel's abilities to the test, Berkeley scientists used nuts as bait to get them to jump to a branch that was farther away. And to overcome the challenge squirrels propelled themselves along the horizontal wall next to their branch in true parkour style to bridge the gap. And if they landed awkwardly at first, they did a great job of learning from their past mistakes.
And the researchers plan to feed these parkour moves into a model for robots in the hopes that like squirrels, these robots can do the same quick thinking to assess terrains like after a natural disaster. So you can be on the lookout for parkour robots in the not-so-distant future.