With his students and collaborators, John Long designs, builds, and uses biorobots.\u00a0 Biorobots are a special class of robot built to test ideas about how animals work.<\/p>\n
John has helped create these biorobots:\u00a0 MARMT, RayBot, Robot Madeleine, and Tadro.<\/p>\n
These robots were built with our industrial partners:<\/p>\n
Farco Technologies, Inc.<\/a><\/p>\n Nekton Research (now the maritime division of iRobot, Inc.<\/a>) built Robot Madeleine for our experiments on the evolution of flippered locomotion.\u00a0 Here, in a segment that was produced for Australian Broadcast Network’s “Beyond Tomorrow,” Madeleine swims in both remote control mode (with the cable attached) and autonomous mode (without a cable, on her own). –>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gcc6UTlEDlw<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With his students and collaborators, John Long designs, builds, and uses biorobots.\u00a0 Biorobots are a special class of robot built to test ideas about how animals work. John has helped create these biorobots:\u00a0 MARMT, RayBot, Robot Madeleine, and Tadro. These robots were built with our industrial partners: Farco Technologies, Inc. Nekton Research (now the maritime […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1345,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-50","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/darwinsdevices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/darwinsdevices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/darwinsdevices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/darwinsdevices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/darwinsdevices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/darwinsdevices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/darwinsdevices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/darwinsdevices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}