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Creeping, Crawling Caterpillars
Sometimes it pays to be spineless. Take the caterpillar--it can squirm and crawl in ways that would make a contortionist green with envy. Caterpillars can move in ways animals with spines and skeletons can't. And now researchers are looking at the roly poly critters as role models for future robots.
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