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Fossil being brought back to life at Carnegie Mellon University

Fossil being brought back to life at Carnegie Mellon University
THE PLEUROCYSTIDIA CAME WAY BEFORE DINOSAURS, THE ANCIENT ANCESTORS TO STARFISH. INSIDE THIS CMU WET LAB, ROBOT DESIGNERS AT WORK TO BRING IT BACK TO LIFE IN ROBOT FORM. GOAL NUMBER ONE IMPROVE ROBOT DESIGN. PART OF THE REASON IS THAT WE WANT TO MAKE ROBOTS THAT ARE BETTER IN THE SENSE THAT THEY바카라 게임 웹사이트RE MORE LIFELIKE AND THEIR VERSATILITY AND THEIR MOBILITY, THEIR ABILITY TO KIND OF MANEUVER THROUGH, SAY, TIGHT CONFINED SPACES. SO MORE MIMIC KIND OF SOME OF THE NATURAL PROPERTIES OF ORGANISMS. MECHANICAL ENGINEERING PROFESSOR PHILIP LEDUKE CHATTING WITH FELLOW PROFESSOR KAMAL MAJIDI, TOSSED AROUND THE IDEA OF RECREATING ACTUAL DINOSAUR TISSUE. WELL, THAT EVOLVED INTO THE IDEA OF RECREATING ANCIENT ORGANISMS IN ROBOT FORM. THE SAME THING THAT YOU KNOW, WHEN WE USED TO HIKE IN CREEKS WHEN WE WERE KIDS AND WE바카라 게임 웹사이트D SEE ALL THE TRIBAL TRIBAL LIGHTS, WE WOULD SEE THESE FOSSILS. BUT NOW YOU CAN TAKE THESE AND SCAN THESE AND CREATE THESE THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGES OF IT, AND YOU CAN TAKE THIS AND NOW CREATE THE EXACT SAME STRUCTURE AND SYSTEM BY 3D PRINTING. BUT NOW FOR US INTO SOFT ROBOTS AND YOU CAN ANIMATE IT. YEAH, WELL, THEY바카라 게임 웹사이트RE NOT PALEONTOLOGY ARTISTS, BUT THEY REACHED OUT TO THOSE EXPERTS IN EUROPE. THEY바카라 게임 웹사이트RE LIKE, OH, THERE바카라 게임 웹사이트S THIS FANTASTIC CREATURE. THAT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST STARTING TO MOVE. IT USED TO JUST SIT IN PONDS TRYING TO FEED, AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN IT STARTED MOVING, RIGHT? AND SO WE HAVE ALL THESE FOSSILS, BUT WE HAVE NO IDEA HOW THEY STARTED MOVING. CUE THE STAR OF THE SHOW, THE PLEUROCYSTIDIA. IT WAS THE FIRST ECHINODERM. SO THE FIRST AQUATIC ORGANISM THAT USED A MUSCULAR STEM TO PUSH ITSELF FORWARD. AND SO THIS WAS A, YOU KNOW, AN EVOLUTIONARY BREAKTHROUGH, JUST LIKE IN KAMAL MAJID바카라 게임 웹사이트S STARFISH ROBOT WORK. THE PLEUROCYSTIDIA USES AN ALLOY OF NICKEL AND TITANIUM THAT ACTS JUST LIKE MUSCLE WHEN IT STIMULATED. GOAL NUMBER TWO SHEDDING LIGHT FOR PALEONTOLOGISTS AND BIOLOGISTS ON HOW ONE OF THE VERY FIRST ORGANISMS TO MOVE ACQUIRED THAT EVOLUTIONARY ADVANTAGE. THIS IS KIND OF OUR CLOSEST THAT WE CAN GET TO KIND OF ALMOST RESURRECTING THESE THESE ORGANISMS SO THERE바카라 게임 웹사이트S A LOT OF VALUE THAT THIS ALSO HAS FOR THE BIOLOGY COMMUNITY, FOR FOR OUR COLLABORATORS IN PALEONTOLOGY. THESE PITTSBURGH SCIENTISTS BRING DIFFERENT PEOPLE AND DIFFERENT FIELDS OF STUDY TOGETHER, OPENING A DOOR TO THE PAST FOR FUTURE BENEFIT. EVERYTHING THAT I DO, THERE바카라 게임 웹사이트S A THERE바카라 게임 웹사이트S SOME VALUE TO HUMANITY THE AND THAT바카라 게임 웹사이트S KIND OF THAT바카라 게임 웹사이트S
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Fossil being brought back to life at Carnegie Mellon University
Robot designers from Carnegie Mellon University worked together to recreate ancient organisms in robot form.Professor Carmel Majidi first developed a robot starfish that uses an alloy of nickel and titanium to bring it to life. Continuing to improve the design is goal number one."Part of the reason is we want to make robots better in the sense that they're more lifelike, in their versatility, their mobility, their ability to kind of maneuver through say tight, confined spaces, more mimic kind of some of the natural properties of organisms," Majidi said.Mechanical engineering professor Philip LeDuc was chatting with Majidi when the idea of recreating actual dinosaur tissue was brought up.The CMU professors acknowledged that in order to properly take on this project, they needed to meet with experts. So, the two reached out to paleontologists from Europe."So they were like, oh, there's the fantastic creature that was one of the first starting to move. It used to just sit in ponds trying to feed, and all of a sudden it started moving, so we have all these fossils right, but we have no idea how they started moving," LeDuc recalled the paleontologists saying.Recreating a robot Pleurocysitid was the new mission."It was the first echinoderm, so the first aquatic organism to use a muscular stem to push itself forward. So this is an evolutionary breakthrough," Majidi said.The recreation of the Pleurocysticid uses the same alloys as the starfish that act like a muscle when stimulated.The Pittsburgh scientists hope that their creation will lead to a better understanding of our past."This is our closest we can get to kind of resurrecting these organisms, so there's a lot of value for the biology community for our collaborators in paleontology," Majidi said."Everything I do, there's some value to humanity. I live by the adage try to make the world a better place," LeDuc said.

Robot designers from Carnegie Mellon University worked together to recreate ancient organisms in robot form.

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Professor Carmel Majidi first developed a robot starfish that uses an alloy of nickel and titanium to bring it to life. Continuing to improve the design is goal number one.

"Part of the reason is we want to make robots better in the sense that they're more lifelike, in their versatility, their mobility, their ability to kind of maneuver through say tight, confined spaces, more mimic kind of some of the natural properties of organisms," Majidi said.

Mechanical engineering professor Philip LeDuc was chatting with Majidi when the idea of recreating actual dinosaur tissue was brought up.

The CMU professors acknowledged that in order to properly take on this project, they needed to meet with experts. So, the two reached out to paleontologists from Europe.

"So they were like, oh, there's the fantastic creature that was one of the first starting to move. It used to just sit in ponds trying to feed, and all of a sudden it started moving, so we have all these fossils right, but we have no idea how they started moving," LeDuc recalled the paleontologists saying.

Recreating a robot Pleurocysitid was the new mission.

"It was the first echinoderm, so the first aquatic organism to use a muscular stem to push itself forward. So this is an evolutionary breakthrough," Majidi said.

The recreation of the Pleurocysticid uses the same alloys as the starfish that act like a muscle when stimulated.

The Pittsburgh scientists hope that their creation will lead to a better understanding of our past.

"This is our closest we can get to kind of resurrecting these organisms, so there's a lot of value for the biology community for our collaborators in paleontology," Majidi said.

"Everything I do, there's some value to humanity. I live by the adage try to make the world a better place," LeDuc said.