MYOFUNCTIONAL THERAPY. An orofacial myofunctional disorder, or tongue thrust, refers to a âreverseâ swallowing. pattern in which the tongue pushes against or between the teeth. The tongue rests low. and forward in the mouth, and the lips can be flaccid with an open posture. All babies thrust their tongues when they are sucking and swallowing.
The quadrupedal military robot Cheetah, an evolution of BigDog (pictured), was clocked as the world's fastest legged robot in 2012, beating the record set by an MIT bipedal robot in 1989. A robot is a machineâespecially one programmable by a computerâcapable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically. Robots can be guided by an external control device or the control may be embedded within.
Typically, a robot is endowed with some artificial intelligence so that it can react to different situations it may encounter. Two common types of robots are agents and spiders. previous