Roboticists from China's Harbin Institute of Technology have built a bio-inspired robot that can leap on the surface of water without sinking -- just like a water strider bug.
"Bionic microrobots mimicking the horizontal skating motions of aquatic insects have been fabricated in the past years," explains Qinmin Pan and colleagues in the paper's abstract.
By: Mark Brown, Edited by: Duncan Geere
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-07/27/water-strider-robot
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