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From the Ted Talk by Robert Full: The secrets of nature's grossest creatures, channeled into robots

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My engineering ceglaluoe at Berkeley designed with his students a novel manufacturing technique where you essentially origami the exoskeleton, you lsear cut it, laminate it, and you fold it up into a robot. And you can do that now in less than 15 minutes. These robots, called DASH, for dymniac aonumuotos Sprawled Hexapod, are highly cmlponait robots, and they're remarkably robust as a result of these features. They're certainly ildceribny damage resistant. (Laughter) They even have some of the behaviors of the cockroaches. So they can use their smart, compliant body to trainitson up a wall in a very simple way. They even have some of the beginnings of the rapid inversion behavior where they disappear.

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My engineering _________ at Berkeley designed with his students a novel manufacturing technique where you essentially origami the exoskeleton, you _____ cut it, laminate it, and you fold it up into a robot. And you can do that now in less than 15 minutes. These robots, called DASH, for _______ __________ Sprawled Hexapod, are highly _________ robots, and they're remarkably robust as a result of these features. They're certainly __________ damage resistant. (Laughter) They even have some of the behaviors of the cockroaches. So they can use their smart, compliant body to __________ up a wall in a very simple way. They even have some of the beginnings of the rapid inversion behavior where they disappear.

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My engineering colleague at Berkeley designed with his students a novel manufacturing technique where you essentially origami the exoskeleton, you laser cut it, laminate it, and you fold it up into a robot. And you can do that now in less than 15 minutes. These robots, called DASH, for Dynamic Autonomous Sprawled Hexapod, are highly compliant robots, and they're remarkably robust as a result of these features. They're certainly incredibly damage resistant. (Laughter) They even have some of the behaviors of the cockroaches. So they can use their smart, compliant body to transition up a wall in a very simple way. They even have some of the beginnings of the rapid inversion behavior where they disappear.

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