It may look like something that from a basement hobby, but a post-graduate student at the University of Bath, says the robot crab in the picture above may one day change the way underwater exploration carried out. As with so many other robots, the performance is in no small part by imitating the behavior of an animal, in this case a crab, of course, is particularly well suited to travel both on land and under water. Of course it is only a Lego Technic prototype built in time so that the latter something lacking is a little bit, but the man behind the Bot said that a future model characterized by fully amphibious capabilities, along with a better stability under a variety of different conditions.

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