Ants are incredibly strong for their size on their own, and can carry enormous weights when they work together. This inspired a team of Stanford University researchers to try and get many tiny robots to team up and combine their efforts. The result is astonishing: a team of six microrobots, each the size of a cockroach and weighing 3.5oz in total, managed to pull a car weighing 3,900lb across a polished concrete floor. David Christensen, one of the researchers attached to the Biomimetics and Dexterous Manipulation Laboratory at Stanford, said that the demo is the functional equivalent of six humans…
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