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This Tiny Robot Crab, Smaller Than A Flea, Could Go Inside You For Medical Treat by Betscoreodds: 3:32pm On May 26, 2022 |
This tiny robot crab, smaller than a flea, could go inside you for medical treatments A miniature robotic crab tinier than a flea has become the smallest-ever remote-controlled robot. Just a half-millimetre wide, it can walk, bend, twist, turn and even jump. The record-breaking micro machine was developed by engineers at Northwestern University and comes in the form of a tiny peekytoe crab. Although the research is exploratory at the moment, they believe the technology might bring the field closer to realising micro-sized robots that can perform practical tasks inside tightly confined spaces. Things like eliminating tumours or clearing blocked arteries inside the human body. The same team produced a winged microchip last year that was the smallest-ever human-made flying structure. They have also developed millimetre-sized robots resembling inchworms, crickets and beetles. ‘You might imagine micro-robots as agents to repair or assemble small structures or machines in industry or as surgical assistants to clear clogged arteries, to stop internal bleeding or to eliminate cancerous tumours — all in minimally invasive procedures,’ said Professor John Rogers, a Bioelectronics pioneer who led the experimental work. A miniature robotic crab tinier than a flea has become the smallest-ever remote-controlled robot (Picture : Northwestern University / SWNS) Smaller than a flea, the crab is not powered by complex hardware, hydraulics or electricity. Instead, its power lies within the elastic resilience of its body. ‘Our technology enables a variety of controlled motion modalities and can walk with an average speed of half its body length per second,’ said Professor Yonggang Huang, who led the theoretical work. ‘This is very challenging to achieve at such small scales for terrestrial robots,’ To build the mini machine, the researchers used a shape-memory alloy material that transforms to its ‘remembered’ shape when heated. In this case, the researchers used a scanned laser beam to rapidly heat the robot at different targeted locations across its body. A thin coating of glass elastically returns that corresponding part of structure to its deformed shape upon cooling. Rogers said that as the robot changes from one phase to another — deformed to remembered shape and back again — it creates locomotion. Smaller than a flea, the crab is not powered by complex hardware, hydraulics or electricity (Picture: Northwestern University / SWNS) He explained that not only does the laser remotely control the robot to activate it, the laser scanning direction also determines the robot’s walking direction. Scanning from left to right, for example, causes the robot to move from right to left. To manufacture such a tiny machine, the scientists turned to a technique they introduced eight years ago — a pop-up assembly method inspired by a child’s pop-up book. The team began by fabricated precursors to the walking crab structures in flat, planar geometries. Then, they bonded the precursors onto a slightly stretched rubber substrate. Tiny crab is the smallest robot ever built Video Player is loading. Play Video Loaded: 0.00% PlayMute Current Time 0:00 / Duration 0:00Fullscreen When the stretched substrate is relaxed, a controlled buckling process occurs that causes the crab to ‘pop up’ into precisely defined three-dimensional forms. The manufacturing method would allow the team to develop robots of various shapes and sizes, but the crab was down to the students. ‘With these assembly techniques and materials concepts, we can build walking robots with almost any sizes or 3D shapes,’ said Rogers. The findings were published in the journal Science Robotics. MORE : Dyson seeks new engineering staff as it previews future robots https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/26/this-tiny-robot-crab-could-go-inside-you-for-medical-treatments-16714393/?ito=facebook%7Csocial%7Cmetroukfacebook&fbclid=IwAR0F1C8yoSGpDWh6Kz_v8QdMMB3Ud68Tane_BBys2BEJXaRqyMPfC-YbLnE 1 Share
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Re: This Tiny Robot Crab, Smaller Than A Flea, Could Go Inside You For Medical Treat by Betscoreodds: 3:32pm On May 26, 2022 |
Beautiful treatment method. |
Re: This Tiny Robot Crab, Smaller Than A Flea, Could Go Inside You For Medical Treat by rolams(m): 3:34pm On May 26, 2022 |
Science is life! 1 Like |
Re: This Tiny Robot Crab, Smaller Than A Flea, Could Go Inside You For Medical Treat by omowolewa: 3:38pm On May 26, 2022 |
Great |
Re: This Tiny Robot Crab, Smaller Than A Flea, Could Go Inside You For Medical Treat by RedMac: 3:43pm On May 26, 2022 |
Very very beautiful 1 Like |
Re: This Tiny Robot Crab, Smaller Than A Flea, Could Go Inside You For Medical Treat by Dreamhighnow(m): 3:46pm On May 26, 2022 |
At least this one fit correct the upstairs issue with mannabbqgrill 1 Like |
Re: This Tiny Robot Crab, Smaller Than A Flea, Could Go Inside You For Medical Treat by Sergio104(m): 3:47pm On May 26, 2022 |
Mistakenly....e go choke for your body |
Re: This Tiny Robot Crab, Smaller Than A Flea, Could Go Inside You For Medical Treat by ayoolataiwo(m): 3:48pm On May 26, 2022 |
Thank God for science,d world would've been a living hell 1 Like |
Re: This Tiny Robot Crab, Smaller Than A Flea, Could Go Inside You For Medical Treat by baralatie(m): 3:49pm On May 26, 2022 |
So how does it do the surgery |
Re: This Tiny Robot Crab, Smaller Than A Flea, Could Go Inside You For Medical Treat by Transcriber: 3:50pm On May 26, 2022 |
Nice tech Nigeria is really far behind |
Re: This Tiny Robot Crab, Smaller Than A Flea, Could Go Inside You For Medical Treat by Transcriber: 3:51pm On May 26, 2022 |
Re: This Tiny Robot Crab, Smaller Than A Flea, Could Go Inside You For Medical Treat by Sergio104(m): 3:53pm On May 26, 2022 |
Transcriber: Asin ehh . Abeg ooh I Don't want such complicated unpredictable treatment |
Re: This Tiny Robot Crab, Smaller Than A Flea, Could Go Inside You For Medical Treat by Betscoreodds: 4:55pm On May 26, 2022 |
Transcriber: It won't happen. |
Re: This Tiny Robot Crab, Smaller Than A Flea, Could Go Inside You For Medical Treat by Nobody: 5:02pm On May 26, 2022 |
Sergio104: So you'd rather die for sure than take a chance to live? Na wa for you Nigerians. Wait until you face a terminal illness with death staring you in the face (God forbid). At that point, you will accept anything that could possibly save your life. 1 Like |
Re: This Tiny Robot Crab, Smaller Than A Flea, Could Go Inside You For Medical Treat by Betscoreodds: 7:49pm On May 26, 2022 |
Transcriber: Lol. |
Re: This Tiny Robot Crab, Smaller Than A Flea, Could Go Inside You For Medical Treat by Betscoreodds: 8:20am On May 27, 2022 |
baralatie: Probably with those legs. |
Re: This Tiny Robot Crab, Smaller Than A Flea, Could Go Inside You For Medical Treat by sterlingD(m): 9:02am On May 27, 2022 |
Nanotechnology? |
Re: This Tiny Robot Crab, Smaller Than A Flea, Could Go Inside You For Medical Treat by Betscoreodds: 9:44am On May 27, 2022 |
sterlingD: The term picotechnology is a portmanteau of picometre and technology, intended to parallel the term nanotechnology. It is a hypothetical future level of technological manipulation of matter, on the scale of trillionths of a metre or picoscale (10−12). |
Re: This Tiny Robot Crab, Smaller Than A Flea, Could Go Inside You For Medical Treat by sterlingD(m): 9:52am On May 27, 2022 |
Betscoreodds:Okay l get it. |
Re: This Tiny Robot Crab, Smaller Than A Flea, Could Go Inside You For Medical Treat by Blackfire(m): 3:44pm On May 27, 2022 |
How much? |
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