This TED Talk features roboticist Jonathan Rossiter, recorded live at TEDx Warwick, 2016.

Hi, I'm an engineer and I make robots.

Now, of course, you all know what a robot is, right?

If you don't, you probably go to Google and you'd ask Google what a robot is.

So let's do that.

We go to Google and this is what we get.

Now, you can see here that lots of different types of robots,

but they're predominantly humanoid in structure.

And they look pretty conventional because they've got plastic, they've got metal, they've got motors and gears and so on.

Some of them look quite friendly, and you could go up and you could hug them.

Some of them not so friendly. They look like they're straight out of Terminator.

In fact, they might well be straight out of Terminator. In fact, they

might well be straight out of Terminator. Now, you can do lots of really cool things with these

robots. You can do really exciting stuff. But I'd like to look at different kinds of robots.

I want to make different kinds of robots. And I take inspiration from the things that don't look

like us, but look like these.

So this is natural biological organisms, and they do some really cool things that we can't, and current robots can't either.

So they do all sorts of great things like moving around on the floor, they go into our gardens and they eat our crops, they climb trees, they go in water, they come out of water,

they trap insects and digest them.

So they do really interesting things.

They live, they breathe, they die, they eat things from the environment.

Our current robots don't really do that.

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