Tech Article 9/15/12

The Velociraptor- Like Robot That Could Save Your Life

http://discovermagazine.com/2012/sep/25-velociraptor-robots-come-to-the-rescue

• Biologist, Robert Full, and his colleges are building robots that look like different animals.
• They made a robot of a lizard and sent it threw an earthquake zone to witness the aftershock of the disaster.
• These robots are for search-and- rescue.
• They were designed after African aqama lizard who can jump and stick the landing and stay balanced. They want the robots to have these abilities.
• They built a large robot that was able to land even lighter on the ground then the lizard.
• They realized that Velociraptor's are even swifter with their tails and decided that they would design a Velociraptor.
• They believe once they create it, it will be able to save the lives of many.