| An aardvark might make a great design to copy | | | | the perfect robotic tool for many |
| for a robot. Certain organic species and | | | | applications.Some may say; are you nuts? No |
| animals do indeed have many excellent traits | | | | actually this makes a lot more sense than the |
| that can be used in robotic design. It | | | | robotic dogs robotic engineers building or |
| appears that evolution has served the animal | | | | University Teams are now conceiving. Some |
| kingdom very well.You see the aardvark has | | | | say; but aardvarks are ugly? Well that is a |
| some very unique features with really great | | | | matter of opinion, because they have |
| gripping clawed feet. It has a strong tail to | | | | excellent hearing, good eyes and so many |
| balance on, as well as a long snout able to | | | | great features to serve their niche it is |
| get into tight places along with a super long | | | | almost hard to find a better animal for many |
| tongue able to get into even tighter spots. | | | | human applications.They are unfortunately not |
| You can see why such a robotic tool could | | | | so easy to domesticate, to work with us as |
| assist mankind as a robotic design for search | | | | pets and trading them for food is silly as |
| and rescue, sniffing out bombs, searching | | | | they are so well adapted finding and catching |
| buildings or helping find survivors in an | | | | their food is simple for them. Therefore it |
| Earthquake.The aardvark is a smart animal in | | | | makes sense to make robotic aardvarks to use |
| the organic form, but with an artificial | | | | as special tools in important applications. |
| intelligent brain, strong power system and a | | | | Consider this in 2006. |
| robust set of sensors, well it might just be | | | | |