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Discovery news has a story about robot that runs over water. From the article:
em>A robot that can speed across the surface of water like a lizard could open the door for multi-legged amphibious robots.
The Water Runner, being developed by assistant professor Metin Sitti at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, could search for victims in flooded [...]

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A remarkable, if slightly creepy, tree-climbing robot is being developed by robotics experts from Carnegie Mellon and several other US Universities.
The video is here.
More info can be found at new scientist blog “Obviously such a robots could have plenty of useful applications, in search-and-rescue and space exploration, for example.”

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