IEEE Spectrum | This Bug-like Bot Moves by Combustion @ieeespectrum | Uploaded September 2023 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Researchers at @Cornell University have built a soft insect-size robot that uses explosions to move.
Methane and oxygen are mixed in a combustion chamber. When they ignite, the chamber expands, and the robot walks, runs, and jumps.This combustion actuator can fire over a hundred times every second, and the robot can lift 22 times its body weight and jump over half a meter high.
Next the researchers want to make robotic muscles out of thousands of these actuators all working together.
Read the full story: spectrum.ieee.org/explosive-robot-insect
#actuators #robot #robots #bug
Researchers at @Cornell University have built a soft insect-size robot that uses explosions to move.
Methane and oxygen are mixed in a combustion chamber. When they ignite, the chamber expands, and the robot walks, runs, and jumps.This combustion actuator can fire over a hundred times every second, and the robot can lift 22 times its body weight and jump over half a meter high.
Next the researchers want to make robotic muscles out of thousands of these actuators all working together.
Read the full story: spectrum.ieee.org/explosive-robot-insect
#actuators #robot #robots #bug
