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Hexapod Robot Learns to Walk Independently Like a Stick Insect

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A group of scientists from Asia have built a robot that borrows the locomotion principles of the insect, the stick insect. The machine achieved this result on its own without setting itself the main goal of imitating natural prototypes. Image source: tohoku.ac.jp author: project Engineers from Tohoku University (Japan) and the Vidyasirimedi Thailand Institute of […]
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A research group led by Wang Yuchen, a JSPS Research Fellow (DC2) at Tohoku University Graduate School, in collaboration with Wittayasirimethi University of Science and Technology in Thailand, has constructed a framework for AI to extract the reward structure and leg coordination rules that generate walking from just a few steps of walking data from stick insects. There is growing expectation for "multi-legged robots" that can overcome obstacle…

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大学ジャーナルオンライン broke the news on Monday, September 7, 2026.
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