We wonder if Natalie Jeremijenko has extended her love of cyber dogs to the insect world. . .

Pollution-seeking miniature leaping robot debuted:

A small robot capable of leaping like a flea to cover vast areas of ground was debuted which sniffs out pollution. The insect-like robot was developed to detect mercury poisoning in the ground and leaps from place to place the way fleas or frogs jump.

This cute little bugger was developed in Italy by the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna’s biomimetics program.

[via The Raw Feed]

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