Friday, 20 May 2016

Moth-like robot can perch on the ceiling

MIT and Harvard scientists have found a way for tiny robots to cling to ceilings. They have created a 1.7cm2 ‘sucker’ is a flexible disc that works electrostatically. It has two concentric ring electrodes only 200nm thick, sandwiched between compliant plastic layers. When the robot need to temporarily grip underneath something, 1,000V is connected between ...

Moth-like robot can perch on the ceiling



from ElectronicsWeekly http://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/research-news/moth-like-robot-can-perch-on-the-ceiling-2016-05/

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