The teeniest robot in the world is a jumping crab

Could they go any smaller?
By Emmett Smith  on 
Close up image of tiny robot crab on a penny.
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Engineers from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois have developed the smallest walking robot ever, and it’s a crab. The half-millimeter robot is modeled after a peekytoe crab and is just the latest iteration in a long line of small robots created by the researchers. The goal for creating a bot so small is to move towards more practical uses of the technology and gaining entry to more hard to reach, tightly confined spaces.

Topics Robotics


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