SUPERBOTS SAVE THE DAY.

By tweaking previous robotics designs, they created a "unified snake robot", or U-snake, made up of a series of identical, jointed modules that allow the bot's body to take on a variety of shapes to move through different types of terrain. Dubbed CRAM, or compressible robot with articulated mechanisms, the robot was topped with a plastic shield similar to a cockroach's exoskeleton, allowing it to move quickly through confined spaces. At Harvard University, roboticist and engineering professor Robert Wood has been developing RoboBees - tiny, flying robots with a wingspan roughly the size of a half-dollar coin. PHOTO (COLOR): Roboticists and first responders worked together to deploy snake robots after the Mexico City earthquake in 2017. [Extracted from the article]

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