Today's farthest mobile robots explore complex terrains across the globe and even on Mars, but have difficulty traversing sand and other granular media like dirt, rubble or slippery piles of leaves. A new study published February 10 in the journal matters of the subject Academy of science of matter
notes:exact sciences are physics takes what may be the first full look at the problem of robot locomotion on granular surfaces.

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