This roach-inspired robot can wiggle through tight spaces
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SQUISH A new, collapsible robot can squeeze into tight spaces like its living inspiration, the American cockroach, Periplaneta americana.
Tom Libby, Kaushik Jayaram and Pauline Jennings; Courtesy of PolyPEDAL Lab UC Berkeley