Robo Roach (Robotic Autonomous Crawling Hexapod), robotic cockroach, Poly-PEDAL Lab, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA

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Developer - Poly-PEDAL Lab

Department of Integrative Biology

Chen Li

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Catalyst: Robot Biomimicry

Uploaded on Jan 23, 2011

Scientists at the University of California Berkeley are convinced they are offering a breakthrough in robot design. Their study of living organisms has offered insights which they've adapted to the world's first robotic cockroach, or, Robo Roach. Graham discovers how the ingenuity of nature may help develop technology that could finally bring about the robot revolution. Full info:
"Robot biomimicry"

by Graham Phillips
May 21, 2009

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Cockroach robot walks through narrow gap

Published on Jun 22, 2015

A thinner body isn't the only way to fit through a tight gap. A new shape has helped a cockroach robot to perfect its manoeuvres

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Watch this robotic cockroach scurry around

Published on Jun 23, 2015

This small robotic cockroach is able to move through a small gap due to its rounded shell.

Video courtesy of UC Berkley

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Article "This cockroach-inspired robot will scurry right into your nightmares"
Crawling soon to a rescue squad near you

by Arielle Duhaime-Ross
June 22, 2015

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Terradynamic Streamlining Inspired by Cockroaches

Published on Jul 14, 2015

Li C, Pullin AO, Haldane DW, Lam HK, Fearing RS, Full RJ (2015). Terradynamically streamlined shapes in animals and robots enhances traversability through densely cluttered terrain, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 10, 046003

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This Robo-Roach might someday save lives

Published on Feb 8, 2016

Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed a robotic cockroach capable of squeezing through tight spaces. Someday swarms of robo-roaches could be sent into disaster areas like earthquake rubble to search for survivors.