Science is truly shaping the world, If the new robots developed by Scientist who claimed they were inspired by the way cockroaches 'the ultimate survivors, are capable of squeezing into any tight space uninvited.Then it's good news for those trapped in collapsed build or even earthquake victims.


The palm-sized robot has a similarly tough but flexible exoskeleton to the much-maligned insect, is ideally suited to scurrying rapidly through tightly-packed debris.

Its soft legs and articulated shell allow it to compress to more than half its size, so it could squeeze through the narrowest of cracks.

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This would allow rescue workers to find and reach survivors stuck in confirmed spaces beneath collapsed buildings.


Two researchers at the University of California, Berkeley's Department of Integrative Biology studied cockroaches as they developed the robot.

They examined in particular how their rigid but jointed exoskeletons allows the insects to invade almost any space.

'Our discoveries from cockroaches inspired the design of a soft, legged hexapod robot named "compressible robot with articulated mechanisms" (CRAM) that we built using laser-cutting, laminating, and the folding of exoskeletal-like plates,' said Kaushik Jayaram and Robert Full, from the University of California's Department of Integrative Biology who conducted the study.


To measure the limits of the insects' abilities, the two reserachersconstructed an obstacle course for American cockroaches.

They found they are capable of slipping through a space smaller than a quarter of their standing body height in less than one second. They do this by compressing their exoskeleton.
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