Power-free sterilization of culture plate. Power-free sterilization of culture plate. (A) Overlapped images of the hygrobot, with its legs coated with antibiotics, crawling on the agar plate as powered by spatial humidity gradient. (B) Horizontal trail of the antibiotics applied by the hygrobot. (C) Sterilized region after 24-hour incubation coincides with the hygrobot trail. Beomjune Shin et al. Sci. Robotics 2018;3:eaar2629 Copyright © 2018 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works