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9:13 pm
October 1, 2007


kymhorsell

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Here's a vid of a small Swedish-built robot.

It's basically a small wafer with electric-powered caterpillar legs.

As you can see from the vid, it can carry quite a bit of weight. :)

My smallest bot (see blog tomorrow) is presently 2 cm x 3 cm. Like this Swedish animal, about all it can do is move. Unlike this micro-bot, my thing mounted on a hearing aid battery can't carry anything; but it can push a largish screwdriver along. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFdnGyj2pbM

5:11 am
October 3, 2007


ash

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That is amazing!

I thought those 1cm x 1cm 'sugar cubes' are pretty funky but this is crazy :)

9:24 pm
October 3, 2007


kymhorsell

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It was a neat demo.

During the Googling, I found a smaller "robot arm" on the 10 nm scale, but that is just TOO ridiculous to post. ;)

I've ordered up enough parts to TRY to put about 2 dozen micro-bots together. Sugar-cubes may be too small; maybe cubical soccer/bumpbots about 20 mm per edge.

I have a few "micro tools" now, but my eyes and hands (aka "meathooks") are the limitations.

10:24 pm
October 5, 2007


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