VIDEO: See a Robot Insect in action

Scientists designed airplane, the size of the insect robot perch and ceilings can start.

Using the robot, which is called electrostatic adhesion, the same method, stick with the static balloon on the walls.

Perch allows robots to save energy.

The results, published in the journal Science, contributing to a ten-year effort Microrobotics Harvard laboratory.

Videos courtesy of MA Graule, SB Fuller, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering / Harvard University

Video produced by Victoria Gill

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