BERKELEY, Calif., May 26 (UPI) -- A unique partnership between a robot bird and robot roach proves the sum is greater than its parts. In a recent demonstration, a land-based robot roach helped launch a flying robotic bird.
Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley were able to use the roach -- a hexapedal robot called VelociRoACH -- as a sort of aircraft carrier for the so-called ornithopter micro-aerial vehicle, named H2Bird.