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Simon Garnier
robot

Robotic ants provide path to real ant brains

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TechJect
dragonfly

Palm-sized dragonfly could be your robot pal

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Alper Bozkurt / North Carolina State University
innovation

Remote-control tech turns cockroaches into beasts of burden

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Stanford University
innovation

Ant-inspired Internet - the 'Anternet' - may be coming soon

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Guek Hock Ping
innovation

New insect discovered via photo-sharing site Flickr

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Jean-Michel Mongeau / Pauline Jennings / PolyPEDAL Lab, UC Berkeley
innovation

Robo-cockroach is a real-life escape artist

drone

Future drones may fly like butterflies

insect

Biofuel cells may turn cockroaches into cyborgs

insect

Ant-like robots poised to invade the marketplace