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Without any batteries or electronics at all, this 88-milligram autonomous robotic insect can walk for hours.
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See the full paper: "An 88-milligram insect-scale autonomous crawling robot driven by a catalytic artificial muscle," by Xiufeng Yang, Longlong Chang, and Néstor O. Pérez-Arancibia from the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, was published in Science Robotics.
Video courtesy: Science Robotics/University of Southern California
Without any batteries or electronics at all, this 88-milligram autonomous robotic insect can walk for hours.
Learn more: spectrum.ieee.org/robeetle-liquid-methanol
See the full paper: "An 88-milligram insect-scale autonomous crawling robot driven by a catalytic artificial muscle," by Xiufeng Yang, Longlong Chang, and Néstor O. Pérez-Arancibia from the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, was published in Science Robotics.
Video courtesy: Science Robotics/University of Southern California