Salamander Robot Teaches Evolution

In an effort to find how we evolved from swimmers to crawlers, European scientists have teamed up to create a bot that they feel mimics change in motion. By combining a primitive nervous system of a lamprey eel with with nine plastic segments, each with its own micro-controller and battery, the Salamander swims in water and then crawls up to dry land.

The work, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the French Ministry for Research and Technology, is referred to as “a demonstration of how robots can be used to test biological models, and in return, how biology can help in designing robot locomotion controllers.” We’re just excited that we can finally have a bot that can come to the beach with us and dive right in.

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