Like the noble ant or the sassy-yet-lovable tugboat, Micro Tugs can pull more than their own weight. The robots, which come from Stanford’s Biomimetics and Dextrous Manipulation Lab, use a ...
Mike Gavan, of Old Greenwich, works on the 9-foot micro-tugboat named Franklin Flower, which he is building at his Old Greenwich home. Gavan, a retired schoolteacher said, "I always wanted a tug, and ...