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These people, insect-like, and with no faces, seem cartoonish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
In the video, a headless, insect-like robot roughly the size of a large dog with a colorful exterior scrambles over rocks, climbs stairs and appears to dance, flashing green lights.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
In Helldivers 2, you're a member of a team of soldiers dropped on to an alien planet and tasked with surviving attacks from waves of giant, insect-like creatures.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2024
Two insect-like robots, a mini-bug and a water strider, developed at Washington State University, are the smallest, lightest and fastest fully functional micro-robots ever known to be created.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 18, 2024
There, too, jutting into the lagoon, was the platform, with insect-like figures moving near it.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
