装上“爪子”后，这种六足机器人能够爬陡坡，甚至悬挂在粗糙的墙壁上，颇有些“飞檐走壁”的意思。 在越来越复杂的人形机器人之外，也有很多研究人员用各种形态的仿生机器人，低成本地实现了更为复杂的功能。 据IEEE Spectrum报道，近日，美国卡内基梅隆 ...

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RHex is one of the robot-darlings of the internet, and this latest video shows exactly why. An all-terrain walking bot developed by US military researchers Boston Dynamics and the University of ...