Kicker - Teeny, tiny robots

NICK EICHER, HOST: Engineers at Northwestern University in Illinois have just developed the world’s smallest remote-controlled walking robot. And just wait till you hear how small it is.

The robot is designed to resemble a tiny crab with eight legs, but even smaller than the smallest pea crab. It can not only walk, it can twist, turn, and even jump.

Professor John Rogers said it took a year and a half to develop the tiny creatures.

Rogers said the robots could be used to help repair small machines or even in surgeries! That’s because the minuscule robotic crabs are just a half-millimeter wide. That is smaller than a flea!

REICHARD: And presumably less itchy.

EICHER: It’s The World and Everything in It.

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