Robot Roaches Work Together To Climb A Step

It gets by, with a little help from its inanimate friends. Cooperation is an evolutionary advantage. While many creatures are perfectly comfortable spending most of their time alone, creatures that work together are capable of far more than their individual components working separately. It should come as no surprise, then, that when researchers make animal-inspired robots, they design them to work together, as a team. Created by the University of California, Berkeley, the VelociRoACH is a small, fast, insect-imitating little machine.