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NSF PR 04-121 - September 16, 2004

 

Video - Tunnel crawl

Simulated robot crawling through tunnel.

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This simulation implements a set of about a dozen rules that allow a lattice robot to "duck" into a tunnel and then crawl through it.
Credit: Zack Butler, Dartmouth College


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