Jumping Robot with Explosive Microrocket

Two different ways of making micro jumping robots, including a chemical reaction. Research by ARL and UMD

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• robot
• robotics
• IROS
• IROS 2011

[mazack00]

....not exactly "robots" ... more like components.

[littlestworkshop]

robot 1 = spring

robot 2 = cap from cap gun

robot 3 = light sensitive bomb

but all quite cool.

[emikochan13]

@endthedisease robots and cells are both made of molecules, when you get to the small scale the line blurs between the two. All living things are basically swarms of symbiotic machines afterall.

[seeriktus]

Plant a slightly bigger one of these on your front door for if an intruder walks in. He gets a tap in the nuts

[wallysaruman]

@THEROLLINNGDICE99 blowing up people when they sit in their cars, when they open a door or when they turn on a light... also... alarm clocks... 

[wallysaruman]

@littlestworkshop The mob is taking notes...

[THEROLLINNGDICE99]

what are the uses?

[FelipeLIV3G]

@ktkoment yeeah, i don't understand!!

[caqtv]

0:55 "tweezers, which will eventually be replaced by on-board actuators" - i.e. it will become eventually a robot

the second robot is activated with current, which i assume will eventually become autonomous

the third robot is actually autonomous, though activated by light.

All three are at least robotic mechanisms, which can easily become autonomous entities with further development, so yes, they can all be considered (prototype) robots.

[endthedisease]

so will nanotech really give us microscopic machines that can navigate inside out bloodstream or will they just be large molecules and man made cells?

[hoppes9]

That's like calling my teapot a robot because it has some active elements in it.