Beavers preparing robots for space exploration; what is going on at the UB engineering department?

Published July 3, 2018 This content is archived.

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A story on WKBW-TV interviews Nils Napp, assistant professor of computer science and engineering, about his research to develop autonomous robots that can overcome uneven terrain and other obstacles and are based on animals that build structures in response to environmental cues.

“One of the inspirations for this project was beavers,” he said. “It will be able to go into some disaster zones, go over some rubbly area and build ramps that would allow both the robot to reach people or target locations in the environment and also build other ramps for robots or people.”

Read the story here.

An article also appeared on World Industrial Reporter.