Some scientists have created robots that act like cockroaches. That is to say, they skitter off faster than you can stomp them.
The military is, of course, particularly interested in this technology (small robots to send ahead of soldiers into an urban combat area, for example).
Another group are trying to duplicate the incredible power of the Peacock Mantis Shrimp's claws...which have the same force as a .22.
We need to keep learning from nature, people. Or at least our engineers do.
They're actually interested in the shrimp's claw for advances in body armor from what I've been reading--they're interested in how the claw itself survives the impacts and absorbs it. Neat to think that studying a natural weapon could lead to advances in armor.
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