A robot built to mimic a real-life salamander heads for the waters of Lake Geneva. The robot, dubbed Salamandra robotica by its creators at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne , was designed to move like a salamander both on land and in the water.
The researchers say building the robot helped them understand vertebrate locomotion and how movement developed when animals moved from sea to land.
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