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From KAIST robot beetles to Harvard robot bees: the practical value of biomimetic robotic animals

KAIST and other institutions are developing biomimetic robotic animals such as robot beetles and robot ants to solve practical problems including rescue and detection. A cyborg cockroach at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore carries a microcomputer, gas sensors, and an infrared thermal camera, and is remote-controlled via electrode pulses; a single roach can survey about 100 square meters of rubble, but a full survey of a building would require about 500 roaches and 500 operators. A robot ant at Stanford University can carry a payload 2,000 times its own mass, grips using a gecko-inspired foot design, and requires wired power in industrial settings due to its high energy consumption.

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