Robot reproduces the evolution of the organism's ability to fly

To improve the performance of a robot designed to simulate a cow bug, engineers at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) have added wings to the 10-centimeter robot. The original design, called DASH (Dynamic Autonomous Sprawled Hexapod), was renamed to DASH + Wings when it was equipped with wings, which was used to discover how flapping wings would affect the host. The weakest is the motion on the surface.

>>> Video: Robot re-evolves the evolution of the ability of the creature

According to the research team (including Dr. Ron Fearing and the students), although adding wings was not enough for the bug to fly off the ground, it allowed DASH + Wings not only to run twice as fast, is sloping 3 times faster than DASH, but it slides forward (when the pins design unevenly as the end of the video below).

Many hypotheses about how animals have developed flightability have failed because of insufficient fossil evidence, so having a winged robot with the ability to slip helps researchers understand. How did the first creatures begin to fly?

In addition to DASH + Wings, UC Berkeley's Biomimetic Millisystems Laboratory also develops robots such as Octoroach (eight-legged robot, hand size) and BOLT (Bipedal Ornithopter for Locomotion Transitioning).