Demonstration Video of Microscopic Graphene/Platinum Robots [2020]
March of the Microscopic Robots
by nature video
August 26, 2020
Building robots at the micron scale is tricky, particularly when it comes to designing small-scale ‘actuators’ – the motors that allow robots to move.
Conventional actuators don’t work at such a small scale, and new actuators that do work use mechanisms like magnetism and are difficult to integrate with traditional silicon based micro-electronics.
Now a team of researchers have developed a new type of actuator that operates electronically and that can be layered directly onto the circuit that controls it.
This opens the doors for the last 50 years of micro-electronics research to be incorporated into robots so small they can’t be seen by the human eye.
Read the paper in full: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2626-9
cover image credit: kkolosov / pixabay
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