Robots May Be More Like Caterpillars Than R2-D2
added Fri Feb 02 10:04 2007 ET from ABC News
The purpose of the project is to create robots that are radically different from the awkward mechanical robots seen today, and the researchers already have a few robots "crawling around the floor" of their lab.
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