Undergraduate Develops Antenna To Help Robot Move Like A Cockroach. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2005 / 03 / 050321084250.htm. Johns Hopkins University.

Like a cockroach's own wriggly appendage, the artificial antenna sends signals to a wheeled robot's electronic brain, enabling the machine to scurry along walls, turn corners and avoid obstacles.

A robotic cockroach, designed by a research team at Johns Hopkins University, uses a flexible, sensor-laden antenna to send signals to the wheeled robot's ...

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