Researchers in Italy have developed a bio-inspired robot called FiloBot, and it doesn’t walk or roll. 🤖 Instead, it grows. As it moves, FiloBot 3D-prints its own flexible stem in real time, mimicking how climbing plants search for light and wrap around their environment. Guided by cues like light and gravity, it bends, twists, and adapts its shape to navigate tight and unpredictable spaces where wheels and legs struggle. Sensors in the head read the surroundings, while a small printer at the ba