OroBOT could tell us about locomotion millions of years ago Jonas Lauströer (HAW Hamburg), Amir Andikfar (HAW Hamburg), John Nyakatura (HU Berlin), Kamilo Melo (EPFL Lausanne)
A robotic version of a creature that lived about 290 million years ago may lead us to rethink an important evolutionary event in our past. It suggests animals with four legs could have gained advanced walking skills before they had fully turned their backs on life in water.
Some reptiles and amphibians look superficially similar when they walk, because their legs are sprawled out on either side of the body. In detail,…
