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A tiny, soft robot with soft caterpillar-like legs can adapt to adverse environments, carry heavy loads.
Robot’s conical legs are 0.65mm long, the gap between the legs is approximately 0.6mm.
0.15mm thick millirobot has been made with polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) embedded with magnetic particles.
Multi-legged millirobot was developed by researchers at City University of Hong Kong (CityU).
The study was published in Nature Communications.