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


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
 

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.
 
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