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Robert Full sobre engenharia e evolução

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Insetos e animais evoluíram habilidades impressionantes -- mas, como nota Robert Full, muitos animais têm mais partes que o necessário. O ideal é copiar só o necessário. Ele mostra como engenheiros podem aprender a partir dos truques dos animais.

Robert Full studies cockroach legs and gecko feet. His research is helping build the perfect "distributed foot" for tomorrow's robots, based on evolution's ancient engineering. Full bio »

Translated into Portuguese, Brazilian by Rui Alão
Reviewed by Fabio Ceconello
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