UC Berkeley researchers discovered that cockroaches and geckos can flip themselves under a ledge. They reproduced the behavior using a robot. Videos part of the paper “Rapid Inversion: Running Animals and Robots Swing like a Pendulum under Ledges,” PLoS One, Jun 6, 2012, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038003. Learn more: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/diy/uc-berkeley-dash-roachbot-acr…