Robots vs. Nature 

The future is here, robots and artificial intelligence are growing more advanced day by day. You may ask what the problems holding robotics back from their max potential are? The simple answer is nature everything in nature is extremely complicated and scientist work to find out how everything works. The hardest problem involves evolution, and how animals have special abilities and defenses. yes, we can understand why and how they were developed but the question of function, and replicating that function still lingers.                       

  

A porcupine has quills that they can shoot at very fast speeds. This protection was developed over thousands of years to protect the species. scientist have been looking to a whole range of animals for answers on how to replicate this behavior on an artificial robot. How does the porcupine shoot its quills out? how do they grow back? how could you put this into a mechanical robot?

The one thing scientists have turned to is muscles. Speed, strength and many other actions are triggered by muscle. Muscular contractions are how humans and animals function. Replicating this in a robot today seems nearly impossible. but scientists are working towards this great feat of engineering. these muscular like mechanics can make robots that can jump, run, climb, and do so many things they are limited to now. 

But is this good for us? have humans not learned from movies and Sci-Fi that robots could eventually outgrow and wipe the human race? We will just have to wait and see.