Snakes and Robots

Snakes and RobotsTop of Mind with Julie Rose • Season 1, Episode 1471, Segment 4

Nov 17, 2020 • 13m

Guest: Chen Li, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Principal Investigator of the Terradynamics Lab, Johns Hopkins University Robots can do a lot of amazing things, but unfortunately, they’re pretty limited in movement. Your robot vacuum can’t climb up the couch to clean it, and a self-driving car can’t move over rubble to assist in a search and rescue operation. To make that happen someday, a team at Johns Hopkins University is studying cockroaches and snakes. (Originally aired June 25, 2020)

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