Video: Humanoid Robot Swims
Posted by Tony on June 8th, 2012Robots. They’re already everywhere just waiting for SkyNet to give the word.
Up until now they’ve all been land-based future threats to humanity…up until now.
Besides Bruce, the shark from the original Jaws movie, robots that take to water are about as rare as cats who enjoy a good shower. Specifically humanoid ones.
Swumanoid is about to change that.
Swumanoid, created by Chung Changhyun and Motomu Nakashima at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in order to measure water resistance.
Created using a 3D printer and featuring about 20 waterproof motors, Swumanoid is able to accurately perform a breaststroke, backstroke, butterfly, dog paddling and even tread water.
So if you’ve finally gotten over the whole “I’m scared of deep water because I don’t know what’s in there and it freaks me out” craze?
You now have something else to fear in the water besides a mechanical great white shark…
It’s name is Swumanoid.
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