By THE__BYTE
Published on May 16, 2025
As IEEE Spectrum reports, Georgia Tech spinoff Ground Control Robotics has created a bio-inspired centipede that uses sensors and plenty of motor-actuated limbs to control weeds.
“Centipede robots, like snake robots, are basically swimmers,” founder Dan Goldman told IEEE Spectrum.
“We created a new kind of mechanism to take actuation away from the centerline of the robot to the sides, using cables back and forth,” he added. “When you tune things properly, the robot goes from being stiff to unidirectionally compliant. And if you do that, what you find is almost like magic — this thing swims through arbitrarily complex environments with no brain power.”