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While certain people might have you believe that the robot uprising is here, bots are still incredibly helpful to humans for now.

, bots are still incredibly helpful to humans for now. In fact, they may even save your life one day.

“We have designed a robot capable of negotiating unstructured, multi-substrate environments, including land and air, by employing its components in different ways as wheels, thrusters, and legs,” the team wrote in aThe study’s authors drew inspiration from animals like meerkats, which stand on hind legs; sea lions, which walk on land using flippers; and chukar birds, which use their wings to walk up steep terrains in addition to flying.

This multi-modal approach allows for greater versatility and results in a kind of general purpose robot that could have applications in a lot of fields. For example, firefighters can use the M4 to search afor survivors without endangering any rescuers. Then, they can use that same robot later to survey a forest fire.

The engineers aren’t stopping there. They plan on building on their current design to add even more features and abilities to the M4.

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