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Robot Walks on Water

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the robot-news-week dept.

gmletzkojr writes "Yahoo! News has a story about a robot built to walk on water, much like small insects, bugs, and of course, Jesus. The current robot is only a prototype, but more 'useful' robots are already being imagined." This puts into practice what scientists learned just last year.

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  1. Re:Pictures? by FinestLittleSpace · · Score: 5, Informative

    Follow a few links and you get to here....
    http://www.me.cmu.edu/faculty1/sitti/nan o/projects /waterstrider/

    Still trying to figure out why this is a useful invention though...

  2. BBC article with pictures... by beeglebug · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here, no new info, but a couple of pictures of the dye tests and the robot itself.

  3. They'd already put this in practice last year! by yjo · · Score: 5, Informative

    The BBC link from the previous article clearly shows a robot was successfully made in 2003 -- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3126299. stm

  4. capsula? by drewbradford · · Score: 5, Informative

    When I was little I had a capsula ( http://www.discoverthis.com/capsula.html ) set that could walk on water... didn't anyone else?

    Oh -- it looks like they're still being made... I guess it's time to find out my Visa's credit limit.

  5. The Carnegie Mellon site with Pictures by Tetravus · · Score: 5, Informative

    The water strider project's home page can be found here.
    The CM NanoRobotics home page is here.

    Both have pictures of the bot and many others.