Pop-up Fabrication of the Harvard Monolithic Bee (Mobee)

The Harvard Monolithic Bee is a millimeter-scale flapping wing robotic insect produced using Printed Circuit MEMS (PC-MEMS) techniques. This video describes the manufacturing process, including pop-up book inspired assembly. This work was funded by the NSF, the Wyss Institute, and the ASEE. Music: D-Song by Bonobo

See "Monolithic fabrication of millimeter-scale machines" and "Pop-up book MEMS":
https://micro.seas.harvard.edu/publications.html

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Harvard University
• Bee
• Harvard
• Robot
• Robobee
• MEMS
• PC-MEMS

[briansmobile1]

The process is awesome. It's like concrete slab buildings with steel plates for weld-seam construction, (at the point of solder "locking") just tiny, tiny, in size and it moves. Very exciting. Hope it proves helpful to humanity instead of being another killer. We have enough of those. Ya?

[KnightMD]

I was disappointed at the end to know they need an external power source to fly... 

[EvilWhiteMale]

This is great. But just be ready for the day when they hit the market and anyone can follow your every move. Don't make any new enemies between now and then.

[fantamize]

BIG BROTHER IS EXPANDING!!!!

[mikeabbatello]

richie rich anyone? lol

[jimmyyu1112]

Great manufacturing process, but can it fly?

[facegarden]

"First at one Hertz, and then at 30 Hertz."

Wow, it took until I wrote that out to realize it wasn't incorrect. I thought he meant "first at one frequency, then at (another)" and just conflated "Hertz" with "frequency", which would have been surprising given that I imagine the speaker is a very intelligent person. I had to write it out to realize he meant 1 Hz. Funny how that worked out.

Anyway, also, WOW this is really, really impressive.

[allnaturalkid87]

Thumbs up for BOOBS!

[mirush65]

@briansmobile1 The nuclear process was also "awesome"...WASN'T iT???

[teargardens]

@briansmobile1 well the epic crappy thing about all this is that the new wrold disorder is real. Their are like 10 or so elite banking mafia families that OWN/CONTROL LITERALLY EVERYTHING. Right now they are in the process of "doing away with" the "old world" & slowly replacing it with their "new world." their stated goal is to have a world wide global communo-fascist dictatorship, with NEVER ENDING serfdom. Just like now only imagine 1984/THX1138/Brave new world, on steroids.

[teargardens]

@shobley you can beam "energy/power" via micro waves ulf/vhf.. Power source was solved LONG ago for micro/nano bots.

[teargardens]

@jcost2012 they could just spray it over a city or put it in the water supply.