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Amphibionics
Amphibionics is a continuation on the theme of building biological-
ly inspired robots introduced in Insectronics, which explored the
building and experimentation of a hexapod walking insect robot.
The practical research detailed in Amphibionics is aimed at devel-
oping a new class of biologically inspired mobile robots that
exhibits much greater robustness of performance in unstructured
environments than a lot of today’s robots. This new class of robot
is aimed at being substantially more compliant and stable than
current wheeled robots.

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