Physicists take first step toward cell-sized robots

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Physicists take first step toward cell-sized robots
January 3, 2018 by Tom Fleischman, Cornell University
 

An electricity-conducting, environment-sensing, shape-changing machine the size of a human cell? Is that even possible?

Cornell physicists Paul McEuen and Itai Cohen not only say yes, but they've actually built the "muscle" for one.

With postdoctoral researcher Marc Miskin at the helm, the team has made a robot exoskeleton that can rapidly change its shape upon sensing chemical or thermal changes in its environment. And, they claim, these microscale machines – equipped with electronic, photonic and chemical payloads – could become a powerful platform for robotics at the size scale of biological microorganisms.


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-01-physicists-cell-sized-robots.html#jCp

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Physicists take first step toward cell-sized robots
January 3, 2018 by Tom Fleischman, Cornell University
 

An electricity-conducting, environment-sensing, shape-changing machine the size of a human cell? Is that even possible?

Cornell physicists Paul McEuen and Itai Cohen not only say yes, but they've actually built the "muscle" for one.

With postdoctoral researcher Marc Miskin at the helm, the team has made a robot exoskeleton that can rapidly change its shape upon sensing chemical or thermal changes in its environment. And, they claim, these microscale machines – equipped with electronic, photonic and chemical payloads – could become a powerful platform for robotics at the size scale of biological microorganisms.


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-01-physicists-cell-sized-robots.html#jCp

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