Cockroaches are one of those species of insects that have always attracted attention of scientists. They crafted not one robot, and development engineers from the University of California at Berkeley — another confirmation. At this time, researchers taught their mechanical creation to overcome obstacles in exactly the same unusual way, how do these cockroaches.

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Cockroaches are one of those species of insects that have always attracted attention of scientists. They crafted not one robot, and development engineers from the University of California at Berkeley — another confirmation. At this time, researchers taught their mechanical creation to overcome obstacles in exactly the same unusual way, how do these cockroaches.

Scientists have long noticed that cockroaches can quickly climb into the slit, the width of which is smaller than the insects themselves. In doing so, they help quick feet and an unusual body shape, able to literally "slip" even in the most inaccessible places. When a cockroach touches a narrow object, his body begins to turn to the right or to the left, which does not allow him to get stuck, and the unusual shape of the shell allows you to safely pass through narrow obstacles. It behaves as and a robot from the University of California.

the Vast majority of modern robots cope with noise on the way a more complex way: the engineers equip their many expensive sensors and sensors, programming them under certain conditions and so on.

"When the robot collides with an obstacle or gets stuck, he just turns the body left-right" — describes the development engineer and co-author of the study Bioinspiration & Biomimetics Chen Lee. In addition to thought out the mechanics of the design of the robot body is made also in the likeness of a cockroach: rounded exoskeleton shell is perfectly suited for penetration into very narrow places.

Despite the apparent simplicity of developing the work on this project took two years. A considerable part of this time the researchers spent in the observation of cockroaches. However, they now believe that with some refinement mechanized insects will be extremely helpful when conducting search and rescue operations or in the so-called precision agriculture.