8-Legged Robotic Thing

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We have the 4-armed surgical robot and now an eight-legged robot designed after an insect to crawl over difficult terrain to be used in rescue operations.

From the Chiba Institute of Technology, it not only can scurry along like a spider, but it can also fold its feet away and roll like a car. Researchers hope that its usefulness will extend to wheelchairs, and perhaps even automobiles.