BBtv: Cockroach-controlled robot / Walter Robot

Roaches are gross. Robots are good. But — cockroch-controlled robots? Roboticist Garnet Hertz made one, and we visit him and his roachbot today. Then, a short film from Walter Robot (aka: Bill Barminski and Christopher Louie) about a robot with a broken heart who ends up having a different kind of close encounter.

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