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Natural Inspiration Gives way to RoboSnail and RoboClam [VIDEO]
Slow, slimy and sometimes pesky creatures, snails, ostensibly are not all that inspiring. But the fact that snails can move in any direction across nearly any surface served as inspiration for a team of mechanical engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology to create a snail-inspired robot.
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