Surprisingly Speedy Soft Robot Survives Being Stepped On

It's small, it's quick, and it's more robust than a cockroach

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Surprisingly Speedy Soft Robot Survives Being Stepped On
This little robot, developed by researchers from Tsinghua University in China and University of California, Berkeley, looks like a bent strip of paper, but it’s able to move at 20 body lengths per second and survive being stomped on.
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