If you discover ants in your apartment, your first reaction is probably to stomp em’ fast. But maybe you’re averse to violence and would prefer to peacefully relocate your six-legged housemates. Now, there’s a robotic arm capable of doing just that.
To be fair, we aren’t going to see a commercial version of this tiny robotic tentacle anytime soon—the technology, detailed this week in Nature Scientific Reports, is still very much in the R&D phase. And the engineers behind it have other purposes in mind that are (arguably) more important than pacifistic pest control. Carefully manipulating blood vessels or embryos during surgery, for instance.
via Gizmodo
Image: Paek et al. 2015
