1.5gram Gliding Robot doing Phototaxis

This 22cm, 1.5gram gliding robot can autonomously detect and fly towards a light source. Its tail is acutated using a novel 0.2gram Shape Memory Alloy (muscle wire) acutator. For more inforamation about its context and other bioinspired jumping and flying robots, please visit http://lis.epfl.ch/microglider.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• flying robot
• jumping robot
• NASA
• sensor networks
• gliding flight
• biomimetics
• bio inspired robotics
• hybrid locomotion
• Shape Memory Alloy
• SMA
• Muscle wire
• Artificial Muscle

[geboo]

your link doesn't work, remove the "." and it will work.

[001assassins]

So its a robotic moth?

[oskarkovac1]

dude look at 2:14 Mirko kovac...

KOVAC IS MY LAST NAME!!!

(as i says in my user name).

[onthecuttingedge2005]

is Mylar heaver than cling wrap? 

[camelazo]

@Rebelgium .01 grams of cocaine, isn't exist!!! NWB

[Usernamejanjacob39]

@Rebelgium round off 1.51 is 1.5 stupid 

[Rebelgium]

1.51 not 1.5

[TiagoTiagoT]

those shape memory wires look like they could work for making a ornithopter (or would that be arthropodopter or somthing?) flap it's wings

would it be possible to power it with solar cells? (perhaps some very thin solarcells with nanotubes and other fullerenes (i think i read somewhere that they would improve solarcells a lot) on the wings instead of mylar)

[budsiskos]

cool. now add a motor so it can be continuous