Robots could help scientists understand how fish started to walk on land

Robots could help scientists understand how fish started to walk on land

Source: shropshirestar

10/23/2024

Robots could help scientists understand how fish started to walk on land

Robots could help shed light on how the ancestors of modern land animals transitioned from swimming to walking, about 390 million years ago.

The approach could provide a valuable experimental method to studying how the fins of ancient fish evolved to support weight on land, experts suggest

Led by the University of Cambridge, the team of roboticists, palaeontologists and biologists is developing palaeo-inspired robots, partly inspired by modern-day walking fish such as mudskippers, and from fossils of extinct fish.

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