Engineers from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, have developed the smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot – a tiny peekytoe crab. Just a half-millimetre wide, the minute crabs can bend, twist, crawl, walk, turn, and even jump.
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The researchers also developed millimetre-sized robots resembling inchworms, crickets, and beetles. Although the work is exploratory at this point, researchers believe their technology might bring about micro-sized robots that can perform practical tasks inside tightly confined spaces. The research was published in the journal Science Robotics.
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