Cockroaches Are Not Everyone's Cup Of Tea,

but from a scientific point of view,

they are wonderful creatures and could be sources of inspiration, as this cockroach-inspired robot developed by scientists from Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), shows, photograph and story from DesignBoom,

HAMR-JR is a half-scale version of the cockroach-inspired harvard ambulatory microrobot or HAMR. About the size of a penny, HAMR-JR can’t climb up the waterspout yet but it can run, jump, carry heavy payloads and turn into a dime, making it one of the most dexterous microrobots to date,

most robots at this scale are pretty simple and only demonstrate basic mobility,’ Kaushik Jayaram, a former postdoctoral fellow at SEAS and first author of the paper comments. ‘We have shown that you don’t have to compromise dexterity or control for size.’ there is something almost strangely hypnotic about watching HAMR-JR move, this the last post for today as I have my exercises to do and then I am out, sorry about that!