Podcast: How Robocats Land on Their Feet

The physics of "cat-turning" has been a subject of fascination for hundreds of years, in part because a cat's almost uncanny ability to land on its feet seems, at first glance, to violate the conservation of angular momentum. "It sounds like a paradox when you first talk about it," says Dr. Will Robertson of the University of Adelaide. "Obviously when the cat is falling, there's no one else helping it to flip over in the air." Images of a falling cat published in Nature in 1894.Image Credit: Nat...