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Robotics researchers are increasingly turning to nature for inspiration. Watch a robotic salamander, a water strider robot, mechanical cockroaches and some cool self-configuring robots.

Footage courtesy of: University of Essex, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Carnegie Mellon University, ULB-EPFL, Tokyo Institute of Technology, National Institute of Advanced Science and Technology (AIST).

Channel: Science & Technology
Uploaded: November 15, 2007 at 12:58 pm
Author: newscientistvideo

Length: 00:02:08
Rating: 4.81
Views: 782624

Tags: robot nature animal cockroach water strider salamander fish

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Video Comments:
karmu83 (January 6, 2009 at 9:00 pm)
The last robot was playing Limbo! xD
kevapanco (January 5, 2009 at 12:36 pm)
woo robots are so kool have they made one that does hw? not just math hw though
Star13570 (January 4, 2009 at 11:03 pm)
lol the last one was doing the worm XD I love it, that one had tohave been the coolest ^^
SkyRifter (January 3, 2009 at 1:05 am)
Dr.Wily says; ""DESTROY MEGA-MAAAANN!!""

"I'll send thousands, billions of my own Robots to
TAKE OVER THE WORLD--!!" lol

(*Laughs manically insane--!!*)
wevil770 (January 2, 2009 at 8:42 pm)
That last one owned
hrishij (January 2, 2009 at 4:52 pm)
the last robot is awesome
Tprinces (January 2, 2009 at 3:28 pm)
awesome! but... do you think you could be just a little more lively? XD
huglojsk (January 2, 2009 at 4:15 am)
1:53 is so nice
B0b5634 (January 1, 2009 at 3:09 pm)
yep its so kewl it can do the limbo and the worm fantastic :D
c00lpers0n10 (December 31, 2008 at 12:34 pm)
the salmander one is realy cool i want one