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Robotics researchers are increasingly turning to nature for inspiration. Watch a robotic salamander, a water strider robot, mechanical cockroaches...
Engineers at Cornell University have designed this odd-looking machine that can rebuild itself and also could perform repairs on itself.
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Snake robots can use their many internal degrees of freedom to thread through tightly packed volumes and access locations that people and machinery otherwise cannot....
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A robot developed by roboticists at the University of Pennsylvania is made of modules that can recognise each other.