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Posted by timothy on Saturday September 11, 2004 @04:30PM from the jesus-bugs dept.

HaiLHaiL writes "MSNBC has an article on a water strider-inspired minirobot built by a Carnegie Mellon engineering professor. Nice." The article also summarizes some interesting recent research that explains how the real-life striders glide as they do. Update: 09/11 21:37 GMT by T : Thanks to Hank Zimmerman, I see that I missed this story the first time around -- mea culpa.

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- Re:Kerry has flip flops that walk on water (Score:1, Informative)
  
  by Anonymous Coward writes:
  
  You are among the uneducated, I can see.
  
  The bill John Kerry supossedly voted for and then against on was because it failed the first time and when it came back around, they added stuff to it so he voted against it.
Hrm... (Score:5, Funny)

by r00k123 ( 588214 ) writes: <borenste AT student DOT umass DOT edu> on Saturday September 11, 2004 @04:34PM (#10222418)

Is a dupe about something walking on water the second coming?

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- Re:Hrm... (Score:1)
  
  by shfted! ( 600189 ) writes:
  
  Personally, I don't think walking on water is all that much -- I want to learn how to duplicate on water. Volunteers? Anyone?
- Re:Hrm... (Score:2)
  
  by drfrog ( 145882 ) writes:
  
  at least the person who submitted it was a friend of thiers
  
  thats what important
Question (Score:4, Funny)

by BoomerSooner ( 308737 ) writes: on Saturday September 11, 2004 @04:37PM (#10222429) Homepage Journal

Does Timothy even read slashdot? Really I want to know.

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Forget about this story, I just heard something... (Score:4, Funny)

by Blakey Rat ( 99501 ) writes: on Saturday September 11, 2004 @04:59PM (#10222546)

Forget about this story, I just heard something even better!

Did you guys know that MIT has a robot that can walk on water?

Man! Someone should submit that to Slashdot...

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I don't understand (Score:2, Funny)

by Lord Bitman ( 95493 ) writes:

Who's Walter Strider?

holy crap I'm hilarious.
Hey... (Score:2)

by GypC ( 7592 ) writes:

... I bet the slashdot editors can walk on water, too. After all, they can resurrect the dead (articles).
Hey timothy, maybe you could come over and work some of your magic on my water tap. I do love wine.
Not a dupe (Score:2)

by DaoudaW ( 533025 ) writes:

This is a new robot from a different researcher. It does have a bit of the same background info as the other article, but that stuff was announced on slashdot over a year ago anyway.

The Carnegie Mellon robot is much cooler than the MIT one. The MIT was a proof of concept windup toy. It went about 6 inches, forward.

The Carnegie Mellon robot has a carbon-fiber body, uses piezoelectic actuators with three circuits to go forward and reverse. The researchers are planning to keep the control circuits very
- Re:Not a dupe (Score:2)
  
  by DaoudaW ( 533025 ) writes:
  
  Whoops, looked at the wrong previous article. Forgive me... :-)

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