Carnegie Mellon’s NanoRobotics Lab has created a robot prototype so lightweight that it doesn’t break the surface tension of water, enabling it to stand and manuever on top of it. Stand on the water, that is. I think the best part isn’t just that they built one, but that according to the article the mechanism that insects like water striders use to walk on water wasn’t even discovered until last year. Their secret? They’re just really, really light.
Read – Engineer Builds Robot That Walks on Water [Yahoo (AP) via /.]
Read – Project Page [CMU]
