{"id":4268,"date":"2006-05-21T11:12:21","date_gmt":"2006-05-21T11:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=4268"},"modified":"2006-05-21T11:12:21","modified_gmt":"2006-05-21T11:12:21","slug":"they-call-her-flipper-flipper-faster-than-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/they-call-her-flipper-flipper-faster-than-lightning\/","title":{"rendered":"They Call Her Flipper, Flipper, Faster Than Lightning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"blocked\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"turtlebot_goto.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/images\/turtlebot_goto.jpg\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" align=\"right\"\/> <a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/news\/briefs\/20060515\/turtlebot_tec.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">A new robot is shedding light on the locomotion of modern aquatic animals, and may also provide insight on how prehistoric giants such as the plesiosaur swam<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The biologically-inspired Madeleine robot, announced this month in the debut issue of <em>Bioinspiration &#038; Biomimetics<\/em>, is an autonomous vehicle with four flippers designed to pitch up and down.<\/p>\n<p>By experimenting with different combinations of flipper motion, biologist John Long of Vassar College and his team compared the efficiency two-flippered and four-flippered motion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What Madeleine has shown is that there are distinct differences and advantages to using just two. This has relevance to looking at the evolution of mammals themselves,&#8221; said Frank Fish, professor of biology at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. Fish, an expert in the biomechanics of swimming animals, is not associated with the research.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/news\/briefs\/20060515\/turtlebot_tec.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">discovery channel<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new robot is shedding light on the locomotion of modern aquatic animals, and may also provide insight on how prehistoric giants such as the plesiosaur swam. The biologically-inspired Madeleine robot, announced this month in the debut issue of Bioinspiration &#038; Biomimetics, is an autonomous vehicle with four flippers designed to pitch up and down. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}