Cell-sized micro robots, Singh Center for Nanotechnology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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Developer - Singh Center for Nanotechnology (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?t=19650)

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Article "New cell-sized micro robots might make incredible journeys (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190307161906.htm)"
A million functional microscopic robots produced from a 4-inch silicon wafer in new nanofabrication process

March 7, 2019

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https://youtu.be/K5djEI-1E8I

Microscopic walking robots

Published on Mar 8, 2019


Researchers have created tiny functional, remote-powered, walking robots, developing a multistep nanofabrication technique that turns a 4-inch specialized silicon wafer into a million microscopic robots in just weeks. Each one of a robot's four legs is just under 100-atoms-thick, but powered by laser light hitting the robots' solar panels, they propel the tiny robots. The researchers are now working on smart versions of the robots that could potentially make incredible journeys in the human body.

Releasing 10,000 robots massively in parallel (real time).

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Marc Miskin

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Article "The Microbots Are on Their Way (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/science/microbots-robots-silicon-wafer.html)"
Tiny sensors with tinier legs, stamped out of silicon wafers, could one day soon help fix your cellphone battery or study your brain.

by Kenneth Chang
April 30, 2019

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https://youtu.be/1-_pzQqo7c0

Tiny robots with giant potential | Paul McEuen and Marc Miskin

Feb 25, 2020


Take a trip down the microworld as roboticists Paul McEuen and Marc Miskin explain how they design and mass-produce microrobots the size of a single cell, powered by atomically thin legs -- and show how these machines could one day be "piloted" to battle crop diseases or study your brain at the level of individual neurons.