RT: New cockroach robot may save lives … and spy (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
If something looks like a cockroach and behaves like a cockroach – well, don’t be so sure. It could be a Russia-created miniature robot which can spy and find people trapped under debris. Scientists say this is the smallest roach robot ever.
Russian scientists from the Kaliningrad-based Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University have presented a prototype of a 100-percent machine cockroach robot that they have developed for a company whose name hasn’t been disclosed.
Update #1: Kaliningrad Engineers Create 'Rescue' Robot Cockroach -- Moscow Times
Update #2: Russia Unveils New Cockroach Spy Robot -- Newsweek
WNU Editor: I hate cockroaches.
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