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"While researchers hope this robot won’t be crawling around your kitchen floor, they do think a new cockroach-inspired bot will be able to slip through tiny cracks to find people buried in the rubble of collapsed buildings. Dubbed “veloci-roach,” the crawling device uses sensors and locomotion like many other bio-inspired devices. But this one flips on its side to shimmy through spaces that would normally prove too small..." 
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"The art and science of biomimicry teaches us to find solutions to our problems by looking at what nature has come up with to solve similar problems. This is what the microrobotics team at Harvard has apparently done with these small cockroach-like autonomous robots. Like insects, their legs move so fast that we must slow down a video of their movements to understand how they do it."
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