Click Beetle (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Click Beetle

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Click beetles can jump without the aid of their limbs when they are tipped onto their backsides. A team of University of Illinois researchers are examining this mechanism to engineer self-righting robots.

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Photo by L. Brian Stauffer.

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