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Miniature Robots (Part 1)

Introduction Within the last decade, it has become possible to design and create sub-gram miniature robots. The demand of miniature robots comes from the potential for their applications, ranging from artificial pollination to complex surgeries and search and surveillance missions. Miniature robots can have the potential to complete or assist tasks that are difficult for humans (because of their size or vulnerability) to accomplish. To make miniature robots, the powering mechanism must be as small and lightweight as possible. The most common energy source for normal-sized robots is the use of batteries. However, batteries (along with its additional components needed to power) take up significant weight and space, making it …

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Xenobot（ロボット）

生物、Robotics / By ergoscience

Overview Xenobots are microbots made from biological cells and developed and programmed by a computer. We are literally “talking robots,” which are the first programmable mode of life in the world. Researchers, who were recently created in 2020, used an Evolutionary Algorithm * to construct the xenobots and were successfully able to program and design the modern organism structure. Its name derives from the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) whose stem cells for the Xenobots were used as the foundations. [2] [4] A xenobot is a biological system smaller than 1 millimeter (0.039) “long, compact enough to fly inside human bodies. Every Xenobots consists only of two cell types: the …

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