This is Pleurobot. Pleurobot is a robot that we designed to closely mimic a salamander species called Pleurodeles waltl. Pleurobot can walk, as you can see here, and as you'll see later, it can also swim.So you might ask, why did we design this robot? And in fact, this robot has been designed as a scientific tool for neuroscience. Indeed, we designed it together with neurobiologists to understand how animals move, and especially how the spinal cord controls locomotion. But the more I work in biorobotics, the more I'm really impressed by animal locomotion. If you think of a dolphin swimming or a cat running or jumping around, or even us as humans, when you go jogging or play tennis, we do amazing things. And in fact, our nervous system solves a very, very complex control problem. It has to coordinate more or less 200 muscles perfectly, because if the coordination is bad, we fall over or we do bad locomotion. And my goal is to understand how this works.

这是一只蝾螈机器人 是一种我们根据蝾螈设计出的仿生机器人 我们把它称为蝾螈机器人 就想你看到的，它会爬行 一会儿你还会看到它游泳。你可能会问我们为什么设计这样一个机器人 其实，蝾螈机器人是一种用来研究神经科学的工具 我们和神经科学家一起设计出蝾螈机器人 希望能更好理解动物的运动原理 尤其是脊髓控制运动的机理 但是，我们对仿生机器人的研究越深入 就越被动物运动的复杂原理所震撼 试想一下在海里遨游的海豚、又跑又跳的小猫 甚至还有我们人类 在进行慢跑或者打网球的时候 我们的每一个动作都那么神奇 实际上，在运动时，神经系统的控制过程十分复杂 神经系统要协调200块左右的肌肉一起运作 一旦协调紊乱，我们就会摔跤或者肢体不协调 而我的目标就是要弄清楚这种协调机制的原理