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After four months of work, Carnegie Mellon graduate student Steve Suhr and assistant professor Dr. Metin Sitti have created a water-strider robot that can walk on water. The journey began when Dr. Sitti, head of the NanoRobotics Lab, asked the students of his interdisciplinary Micro/Nano-Robotics class to think outside the box: ?try to understand a water strider: how it really stays on water, and swims on water, and design your own robot,? he challenged. The course?s first homework assignment had been part of Dr. Sitti?s curriculum for three years, including one teaching at University of California at Berkeley before he arrived in Pittsburgh.

Although the proposal was meant to be the starting point of the course, first-year graduate student...

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