When illuminated with laser light, a liquid-crystal elastomer robot (inset) about 1 cm long crawls up walls and across ceilings just like the banded snail sitting next to it.
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Light-activated LC elastomer propels biomimetic “snail robot”

The centimeter-long soft robot harvests energy from a laser beam and can crawl on horizontal surfaces, vertical walls, and ceilings.

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