Robotics
True or False: The safety harness must be taken off for accurate testing of our bipedal robot.
False. The safety harness is given slack as to not restrict the movement of the robot. However, it stays on during experiments so that the person holding the rope can catch the robot to prevent breaking of expensive equipment.
True or False: Porpoising is the term used to describe penguins sliding over ice on their stomachs.
False. The term for this locomotor strategy is tobogganing. Porpoising refers to the type of swimming penguins do which consists of leaping in shallow arcs above the waters surface.
True or False: A robotic cat named PARO was branded as a therapeutic robot for the elderly.
FALSE. PARO is a robotic seal.
True or False: Cody Maverick is the name of a penguin surfer.
True. Cody Maverick was the name of the main character in the movie Surfs Up.
True or False: The Antarctic Convergence, also referred to as the Antarctic Polar Front, is a great place for penguins to eat.
True. This area circles Antarctica and is where cold and warm waters meet. As a result, lots of krill live here which makes for great penguin meals.
This is the name of the bipedal robot our research team works with.
(Tallahassee) Cassie
All penguin species live in this hemisphere.
Southern
This operating system has Tux the penguin as its logo.
Linux
This is the catch phrase of the penguins in "Penguins of Madagascar".
Just smile and wave boys, smile and wave
This country hosted one of the world's largest animal rehabilitation efforts when it saved 20,000 penguins from an oil spill near its coast.
Africa
This is the primary programming language our robotics team uses.
MATLAB
The dark colored backs and white colored bellies of penguins help them escape predators by providing them with this.
Camouflage
This ice hockey team has a penguin as its mascot.
Pittsburg Penguins
This animated penguin movie title is an antonym for "Sad Hands"
Happy Feet
This FSU engineering building is home to the robotics lab.
AME (Aero-Propulsion, Mechatronics, and Energy)
This is the company from which our lab's bipedal robot was bought.
Agility Robotics
Baby penguins must wait for this biological change to occur before they can swim in the ocean.
Molting
The Digit robot is primarily branded for this purpose.
This species of penguins was featured in the famous "March of the Penguins" movie.
Emperors
This is one of the two countries that are home to the smallest species of penguins known as Fairy penguins.
Australia or New Zealand