Giant Robotic Insects Are the Adorable Stuff of Nightmares
Giant robot insects. Sci-fi fodder of legitimate scientific inquiry? Now it’s both. Biomechatronics researchers from Bielefeld University in Germany created a walking and functioning robot insect, about three feet long, named Hector. Yes, they named it. The robot is biologically inspired by a stick insect, which they actually mo-capped in order to learn its movements…
