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RoboKrill is a one-legged robot that mimics the way krill swim

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A robot with appendages that mimic the swimming legs of krill could one day be used to study these key marine food sources or explore hard-to-reach places Technology 15 February 2022 By Alex Wilkins A robotic leg moving through water creates similar patterns to the motion of krill as they swim, and could be used … Read more

Stopwatch errors could make race times wrong by a tenth of a second

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By Matthew Sparkes Stopwatches may not be as accurate as you think EyeEm / Alamy Digital stopwatches can make rounding errors of up to 0.11 seconds, which could be enough to change the winner of close races. Although the devices record time extremely accurately internally, they often make errors when converting that raw data to … Read more