Vladan Vuletic, the Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics at MIT, says the ability to tune friction would be helpful in developing nanomachines —
tiny robots built from components the size of single molecules.
Not exact matches
While engineers have had success
building tiny, insect - like
robots, programming them to behave autonomously like real insects continues to present technical challenges.
But now two computer scientists report a
tiny step toward that future with a robotic system that designs and
builds robots with just a bit of help from a human hand.
Researchers have designed and
built a
tiny robot that not only walks on water, but leaps free from its surface, talents that mimic the water strider.
The new wing architecture, which could greatly simplify the manufacturing process and reduce fuel consumption by improving the wing's aerodynamics, as well as improving its agility, is based on a system of
tiny, lightweight subunits that could be assembled by a team of small specialized
robots, and ultimately could be used to
build the entire airframe.
It is based on a system of
tiny, lightweight subunits that could be assembled by a team of small specialized
robots, and could ultimately be used to
build the entire airframe.
If you want to form very flexible chains of nanoparticles in liquid in order to
build tiny robots with flexible joints or make magnetically self - healing gels, you need to revert to childhood and think about sandcastles.
Then true inspiration struck: Using leftover equipment from the makerspace and a newly donated RV, Barnett created the Geekbus, a 40 - foot mobile STEM learning lab equipped with tools like buildable Lego
robots, wind turbine kits, and Arduinos —
tiny programmable computers that can be used in
building clocks, keypad locks, and
robots.
Gundam has remained popular through nearly 40 years in part because people really love
building tiny models of giant
robots.
Build a robot, befriend a dragon and rescue the princess on your avatar's journey through exotic lands to help the tiny Keflings build their king
Build a
robot, befriend a dragon and rescue the princess on your avatar's journey through exotic lands to help the
tiny Keflings
build their king
build their kingdoms!
Crafted to hook fickle - minded youngsters, Gotcha Force is game all about collecting and
building teams of mechanized extraterrestrial beings known as «Gotcha Borgs» to battle against their friends» — think Pokemon, but with
tiny robots.