Originally published at: The tiny robeetle earned Guinness Record as world's smallest crawling robot | Boing Boing
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Those are some mighty big grains of rice. Someone omitted the “milli” prefix.
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I can use this to retrieve stuff from those pesky tiny places that stuff seems to find it’s way into.
I think 
It seems more coordinated that some more complex organisms I’ve seen running on the same fuel.
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Is there a Guinness record for tracking devices placed on non-robotic insects? i find this really amazing even given these are some monster sized insects:
Powered by alcohol? I for one welcome our miniature new drunken robotic beetle overlords.
The Robeetle—a tiny scurrying robot that at 88 gram weighs
@pesco - it’s 88 milligrams not grams
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The article and video are light on details, but it looks like all it does is crawl in a straight line without any control, which stretches the definition of “robot” a bit. By that measure a wind-up toy could be called a “robot”.
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Some of them are!
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