It has the first findings from 400 million years ago lamprey (agnatha) was modeled. The currently living species of the fish species, known as jawless fish or jawless fish, do not have body scales and jaws. Jawless fish with bloodsucking feature, now AgnathaX inspires your robot.
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Why was AgnathaX inspired by fish?
Biorobotics company KM-RobotaCEO of and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology postdoctoral researcher in Lausanne Kamilo Melogave information about the robot. AgnathaX will model for the lamprey that inspired him, to help understand the fish’s spinal cord and nervous system structure.
Kamilo, thinks that this robot will give us a lot of information about human anatomy. Because research shows that the spinal cord and peripheral nervous system of fish have not changed over several hundred years of evolution. With this evolutionary constancy, the lamprey is considered our distant relative, in a way.
AgnathaXconsists of 10 interconnected modules that form the artificial spinal cord of the inspired fish. For this reason, the letter X, which is 10 in Roman numerals, was added next to the Latin name of the fish.
What will be the functions of the robot?
The development team says swimming robots make a major contribution to the field of neuroscience about the control of the central and peripheral nervous system. The robot provides important information about how it interacts to coordinate movements.
Kamilotalked about the next steps for this project. The researcher said they are considering testing the robot’s ability to swim in more turbulent waters and whether it will have impaired steering functions. Melo, AgnathaXHe thinks it will be useful in ocean research. He also mentioned that it could shed light on the development of future swimming robotics.
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