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Analyzing Insects' Motor Skills A newly developed software allows scientists to carry out a detailed analysis of cockroaches' movements, opening the way to future exploring or rescuing robots that would be able to walk on any kind of ground and even look through debris.Until now, many researchers tried to analyze exactly the way that cockroach...	28 October 2010 05:08 GMT

6 Amazing Facts About Cockroaches! 1.There's nothing more disgusting among the insects than cockroaches. Of the world's 4,000 species, only 30 species live in our household. The house infesting species vary from the 3 cm (1.2 in) long American cockroach, Periplaneta americana (really nasty seeing it around the house), to the 1.5 cm (0.6 in)...	19 December 2007 06:47 GMT

Could Robots Help us Get Rid of Cockroaches? You cannot get rid of cockroaches that easily and they are so hardy that they are amongst the few organisms that can survive in an area after atomic experiments. The disgusting insects also surprise us with a memory that makes them capable of advanced learning. But a new toy can change their behavior. Cockroaches alw...	16 November 2007 05:00 GMT

Cockroaches Found as Intelligent as Dogs! Cockroaches are really persistent, and so hardy that researchers found they were the only organisms that can survive in an area after atomic experiments. Now, Japanese researchers were amazed with a new finding on these disgusting insects: they have a memory enabling them to form Pavlovian reflexes. They taught cockr...	14 June 2007 09:06 GMT

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