Category: microrobot

This tiny robotic beetle travels for two hours without a battery

Post author By Randall
Post date August 21, 2020
Categories In autonomous, Battery, biomimicry, bot, gear, insect, methanol, microrobot, muscles, News, robeetle, robot, robotics, Tech, tomorrow, university of southern california, untethered, usc

[ad_1] The system’s “catalytic artificial micro-muscle” is made with a nickel-titanium (NiTi) shape-memory alloy (SMA), a wire that shrinks and expands with temperature changes. That wire is coated with platinum, and when the platinum interacts with RoBeetle’s methanol fuel, a combustion reaction generates heat. The temperature changes cause a tiny vent to slide back and […]

Harvard shrank its insect-inspired microrobot to the size of a penny

Post author By Randall
Post date June 4, 2020
Categories In hamr, hamr-jr, harvard, microrobot, microrobotics, News, robotics, Robots, Tech, tomorrow

[ad_1] Kaushik Jayaram/Harvard SEAS “The wonderful part about this exercise is that we did not have to change anything about the previous design,” said Kaushik Jayaram, first author of the paper on HAMR-JR. “We proved that this process can be applied to basically any device at a variety of sizes.” The researchers also wanted to […]