GoQBot: a robot caterpillar from the team of Tufts University researchers

Very few people like caterpillars, but their plasticity can only be envied. Caterpillars of some species of butterflies are able to avoid danger with enviable speed - and scientists from Tufts University decided to create a device that could use the principles of the movement of a living creature. Generally speaking, recently the developers have given out quite a lot of working models of robots, the prototype for which were living beings. This cybernetic seagulls, robots, snakes and other representatives of the "zoo".

Developers from Tufts University spent quite a lot of time studying the movement of live caterpillars, and created a fairly realistic model. Something like a cybernetic caterpillar, able to move very quickly. This device was called GoQBot, and it can move very quickly, rolling into a ring, and jumping into the air.
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GoQBot is covered with silicone, and special rings, something like artificial muscles, are embedded in the body of the “caterpillar”. The maximum number of revolutions of GoQBot is 300 revolutions per minute. It is worth noting that the work of scientists was sponsored by the notorious DARPA agency, whose representatives do not lose hope of getting new reconnaissance robots.

On the sides of the device are special infrared sensors that allow the device to navigate in space, plus it all looks good. Below you can find a video that shows how this device works. Sorry, the video is short.