Robot called μTug can lift 2,000x it's weight - Proportionate to a human dragging a blue whale

04/27/2015 - 00:00

By Aviva Rutkin -

Mighty things come in small packages. The little robots in this video can haul things that weigh over 100 times more than themselves.

The super-strong bots – built by mechanical engineers at Stanford University in California – will be presented next month at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Seattle, Washington.

The secret is in the adhesives on the robots' feet. 

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