{"id":4463,"date":"2010-04-30T12:13:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T04:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=4463"},"modified":"2015-04-21T08:45:38","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T00:45:38","slug":"friday-math-movie-robert-full-on-engineering-and-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-robert-full-on-engineering-and-evolution-4463","title":{"rendered":"Friday math movie - Robert Full on engineering and evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a great movie from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/\">TED<\/a> (aren't all TED movies great?).<\/p>\n<p>Robert Full studies the animal world to improve robots (and Pixar cartoon characters). His enthusiasm for his topic is infectious.<\/p>\n<p>He points out the movement of animals can be modeled using pogo sticks, and this leads to the development of stable moving robots with no feedback mechanism.<\/p>\n<p>He has a joke at the expense of mathematics at around the 6-minute mark, but I'll forgive him - he's just appealing to the audience's normal fear of anything more complicated than 1 + 1 = 2.<\/p>\n<p>It's a fairly old video (first filmed in 2002), but still interesting.<\/p>\n<p>On with the show:<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoBG\">\n<iframe width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BUmOKfllAEo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-robert-full-on-engineering-and-evolution-4463\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2010\/04\/gecko.jpg\" alt=\"gecko\" title=\"gecko\" width=\"128\" height=\"120\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a>Robert Full shows us how nature inspires robot design. We also find out how geckos can walk upside-down on the ceiling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}