" Cat Feat " -- The Discovery Files

A cat always lands on its feet. At least, that's how the adage goes. Researchers at Georgia Tech hope that in the future, this will be true of robots as well. To understand the way feline or human behavior during falls might be applied to robot landings, the researchers delved into the physics of everything from falling cats to the mid-air orientation of divers and astronauts.
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