Researchers from Northwestern University have created a robot crab which can bend, twist, walk, turn, crawl and jump and is 0.02 inches wide. The robot was inspired by peekytoe crabs. ‘Robotics is an exciting field of research, and the development of microscale robots is a fun topic for academic exploration,’ says Professor John Rogers the ...

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