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SAN FRANCISCO Nuri Sahin Dortmund Jersey , Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- Researchers at University of California, Berkeley, have devised a palm-sized robot using some of their creepy findings about cockroaches.


Kaushik Jayaram, who recently obtained his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and is now a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, said "what's impressive about these cockroaches is that they can run as fast through a quarter-inch gap as a half-inch gap Neven Subotic Dortmund Jersey , by reorienting their legs completely out to the side."


"They're about half an inch (1.27 centimeter) tall when they run freely, but can squish their bodies to one-tenth of an inch (0.25 centimeter)," Jayaram said. In addition, they can withstand forces 900 times their body weight without injury.


Using the roach technique as inspiration, Jayaram designed a robot known as CRAM Maximilian Philipp Dortmund Jersey , for compressible robot with articulated mechanisms, that can splay its legs outward when squashed, then capped it with a plastic shield similar to the tough, smooth wings covering the back of a cockroach.


The model robot, described as simple and cheap Marwin Hitz Dortmund Jersey , was built with an origami-like manufacturing technique, and is now available as an inexpensive kit made by Dash Robotics -- a commercial spin-off from previous robotic work at UC Berkeley.


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