Follow Live Science, Facebook & Google+. The study describing the spider species was published April 17 in the journal Zootaxa.įollow Agata Blaszczak-Boxe on Twitter. "We tried to imitate the movement of the spider" while building the model, Rechenberg told Live Science. The Moroccan flic-flac spider, which is related to the golden wheel spider, is able to double its speed when it cartwheels away, but the huge expenditure of energy the spider needs comes with a. (Photo : Ingo Rechenberg) A spider that moves across the sand by somersaulting like a gymnast is the inspiration for a new type of robot that can propel itself across rough surfaces. The robot - named Tabbot after "Tabacha," which means spider in the Berber language - can move by both walking and turning somersaults, just like the creature it's modeled after. Festo : The flic-flac spider Bionic Wheel Bot 169 views The biological model for the BionicWheelBot is the flic-flac spider (cebrennus rechenbergi). The spider, a new species known as the Moroccan flic-flac spider (Cebrennus rechenbergi), makes its home in the the Erg Chebbi sand desert in southeastern Morocco. Inspired by the spider's unusual movement mechanism, Rechenberg, a bionics expert, developed a 10-inch-long (25 centimeters) model of a spider robot. MaThe BionicWheelBot is a robot, created by Festo, that is able to walk around and roll just like an agile flic-flac spider (cebrennus rechenbergi). The Moroccan flic-flac spider hurls itself up and down hills in a cartwheel, as shown in the sequence of images above, as a last ditch resort to help it escape from predators. rechenbergi is nocturnal and lives in the Erg Chebbi desert in southeastern Morocco, close to the Algerian border. To protect itself from the sun and predators, the animal weaves tubelike "towers" in the sand that are held together by silk threads. Cebrennus rechenbergi - the flic-flac spider 550,129 views Cebrennus rechenbergi is the only spider able to move by flic-flac jumps.more.
In fact, the flic-flac moves propel the spider across the sand at some 6.5 feet per second (2 meters per second), which is twice as fast as its walking speed. On the other hand, its Tunisian relative moves only by rolling its body down sand dunes. "This robot may be employed in agriculture, on the ocean floor or even on Mars," Rechenberg said in a statement.The spider propels itself off the ground and moves its legs in a flic-flac motion to go uphill, downhill or on level ground. The robot, called "Tabbot," a nod to the Berber word for spider, "tabacha," was designed by German engineer Ingo Rechenberg. Peter Jäger, a spider expert at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt and lead author of the research paper, said the the spider's "unique mode of locomotion" serves as a criterion to distinguish the species.Įngineers took inspiration from the nimble spider and designed a robot that can move across the sand in a similar fashion. Zoologists were keen on differentiating the spider from a closely related species of spider in Tunisia, which appears morphologically identical, save for minute differences in the arachnid's sex organs.īut the flic-flac spider's acrobatics solidify the creature in a class of its own. When it's doing its acrobatics, the flic-flac spider can move at nearly double its normal walking speed, traveling about 2 meters per second. The flic-flac spider can roll across flat surfaces, downhill and uphill as well. The golden rolling spider in Namibia can also move in a rolling fashion, but that species is restricted to using its roll when traveling downhill. No other spider is known to move like this, a team of German researchers report in the journal Zootaxa. A transforming spider that rolls or creeps A robotic fish that autonomously maneuvers through acrylic water-filled tubing A semi-autonomous flying bat-like robot with more than a seven-foot (2. The move doubles the spider’s speed, to two meters per second. The spider uses an acrobatic flic-flac handspring to propel itself headfirst across the sand in a rolling motion. A spider in the Moroccan Sahara rolls like a tumbleweed and can do powerful, acrobatic flips through the air.Cebrennus rechenbergi runs for a short time, then stretches out its front legs, spinning into the air and returning to touch the ground with its hind legs.
The spider, a new species known as the Moroccan flic-flac spider ( Cebrennus rechenbergi), makes its home in the the Erg Chebbi sand desert in southeastern Morocco. A spider that moves across the sand by somersaulting like a gymnast is the inspiration for a new type of robot that can propel itself across rough surfaces in a similar manner.
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