00:00There's a new robot that has 20 legs and 20 eyes.
00:05Um, what?
00:07Imagine a tumbleweed, but as if it went to an engineering school and got way too ambitious.
00:13That's the vibe of a brand new robot from Duke University called Argus.
00:17Who said, you know, if you have a robot to help us in a most effective way, have to look
00:21like us?
00:22Most robots we know try to mimic humans or dogs.
00:25Argus is none of that. The standout feature includes 20 telescopic legs sticking out in every direction,
00:33each with their own depth-sensing cameras.
00:35Argus has no front, back, top or bottom. It's direction agnostic.
00:41Engineering professor Buyan Chen and his team behind Argus focused on uniformity in action or dynamic symmetry.
00:50This allows it to accelerate almost equally in any direction.
00:54If you ask me, what is the best way and how should we think about building robots?
00:58To me, the question, the answer to this question is to think about building robots as a new species.
01:05Argus can navigate sandy beaches, forest undergrowth, obstacles and even climb between parallel walls.
01:12It just adapts.
01:13If one of its 20 legs breaks, it still continues to function.
01:17The team behind Argus hopes its building principles could guide the development of search and rescue robots,
01:24underwater vehicles or even robots in space.
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