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closeBio-inspired flying robot application
Posted by karlfrank on 29 Jun 2013 at 17:56 GMT
Hello!
The author of a blog called Daedelus' Notebook shared your study with me. Tom and I are part of a group of people writing about bio-inspired flying robots. Our aim is to see larger mass robots flying in the near term. I am a HS biology teacher and have partnered with professor Soon-Jo Chung at UIUC to increase student interest in STEM careers through the development of innovative robotics programs. At first glance, it seems that your work fits nicely with our goals, and further, that your models could be printed using 3D technology. FESTO's SmartBird represents a level of achievement that can be surpassed in terms of efficiency. I wanted to view the other videos you have posted, but they do not download as video files. Any suggestions for how to do this? Thanks! Also, may I share your video on my site?
Karl at Great Blue Machine
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RE: Bio-inspired flying robot application
dbbaier replied to karlfrank on 01 Jul 2013 at 13:55 GMT
Hello Karl,
Thank you for commenting on our work and I greatly appreciate the efforts of you and your colleagues towards improving STEM interests. It looks like you can only view the supplemental videos in the video player provided on the Plos One site. I, too, could not save the links as video files but was able to view all of them. I will check with Plos One to see if this was intentional or not. Perhaps the link on your site could point to the Plos page.
Dave Baier
RE: RE: Bio-inspired flying robot application
MattJHodgkinson replied to dbbaier on 02 Jul 2013 at 11:31 GMT
The videos are functional .wmv files, but they are missing that extension. Apologies for that, I suggest adding it back on. Windows Media Player can play the files.
You can share the videos on your site - they are licensed with the article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, "which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited."