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Mobile robots get a leg up from a more-is-better communications principle

  • Written by Baxi Chong, Postdoctoral Researcher in Quantitative Biosciences, Georgia Institute of Technology
Mobile robots get a leg up from a more-is-better communications principleGetting a leg up from mobile robots comes down to getting a bunch of legs.Georgia Institute of Technology

Adding legs to robots that have minimal awareness of the environment around them can help the robots operate more effectively in difficult terrain, my colleagues and I found.

We were inspired by mathematician and engineer Claude Shannon’s c...

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