This Robot Has All the Moves—Eight, to be Precise

Robotics engineers often look to how animals get around for inspiration for more effective and efficient artificial limbs, joints, and muscles. One particularly fruitful source of inspiration is studying creatures that use their limbs for different kinds of mobility—think amphibians that both walk and swim, or birds that both walk and fly. Such inspiration has led to the SPIDAR that crawls and flies, the LEO that skateboards and slacklines, and robots that can switch between bipedal and qu