Microrobots
ISSCC Microrobotics just took a giant step toward reality, according to a paper presented at this week’s International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco.
Microrobots are the subject of intense experimentation and development in a project formally known as Intelligent Small World Autonomous Robots for Micro-manipulation, but better known by its more entomological acronym, I-SWARM.
Each I-SWARM moves, turns, starts, and stops by individually vibrating its three piezoelectric legs, and communicates with its fellows through four LED/photodiode pairs.
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