Inspired by centipedes, researchers have designed robots that might one day plant and harvest crops, move goods, monitor the environment, and even explore space.
One of the creepiest encounters I’ve ever had came 25 years ago, when I moved into my first house. Turning on the bathroom light early one morning, a gigantic centipede—with its blur of legs—ran up and over my foot without breaking stride. Now, even the sight of one sends shivers up my spine.
Though centipedes don’t typically have the 100 legs they are named for, they often have dozens of pairs, one per body segment. That makes them long as well as leggy—and capable of a variety of motions, says Matthew McHenry, a biomechanist at the University of California , Irvine. The primitive arthropods have “speed, elegance, and efficiency that are the envy of engineers,” McHenry says. Despite that, our intuition about how they move is “often wrong,” Socha says.
Another student, Georgia Tech undergraduate Eva Erickson, looked at how centipedes change the way they run. Many animals, including horses and people, alter their gait—the way their legs move relative to their body—as they increase their speed. But, using a sophisticated video tracking program called DeepLabCut, Erikson found the centipedeNormally,’s legs move in a wave—like fingers drumming on a table. But sometimes, the direction of the wave changes.
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