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Yet, being able to pivot and make sharp turns is an essential feature for robots to avoid obstacles.

As the bugs darted back and forth on the water’s surface, they resembled bats and birds on the hunt, he says, an impressive feat because it’s much harder to make sharp turns on water than through the air.

Others had noticed that these sesame seed–size insects have fans at the tips of their middle legs and had presumed that, using muscles in their legs, the ripple bugs open and close the fans to help themselves make sharp turns.

The weak lensing survey requires visible light to make sharp images, whereas the BAO survey relies on infrared light to map more distant galaxies, whose light is “redshifted” by the expansion of the universe.

“You don’t need a ginormous large brain to make sharp cutting tools. The challenge is in using the stone tools. I think that’s where the difference lies.”