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MIT Researchers Build A Robotic Snail

Posted by timothy on from the cool-hobbies dept.

kiwimate writes "MIT researchers have built what might be the world's first robotic snail. It has two purposes: to understand how a snail moves, and to observer how liquids behave at a very small scale. Evidently, studying snail slime is a rather interesting pasttime. Lots of interesting details on sort of results might eventuate from this project."

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  1. Liquids on a small scale? by tsa · · Score: 2, Informative

    It wasn't very clear in the article how this snail helps in the study of liquids on small scales. Can someone tell me more about this?

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