{"id":163328,"date":"2023-05-04T13:25:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T18:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/brains-on-board-smart-microrobots-walk-autonomously"},"modified":"2023-05-04T13:25:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T18:25:39","slug":"brains-on-board-smart-microrobots-walk-autonomously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/brains-on-board-smart-microrobots-walk-autonomously","title":{"rendered":"Brains on board: Smart microrobots walk autonomously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bCjnekohBAY?&wmode=opaque&rel=0&enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.wevolver.com\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"\" data-lf-yt-playback-inspected-kn9eq4roawkarlvp=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A collaborative effort has installed electronic \u201cbrains\u201d on solar-powered robots that are 100 to 250 micrometers in size \u2013 smaller than an ant\u2019s head \u2013 so that they can walk autonomously without being externally controlled.<\/p>\n<p><em>Cornell researchers installed electronic \u201cbrains\u201d on solar-powered robots that are 100 to 250 micrometers in size, so the tiny bots can walk autonomously without being externally controlled. No\u00ebl Heaney\/Cornell University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While Cornell researchers and others have previously developed microscopic machines that can crawl, swim, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.cornell.edu\/stories\/2020\/08\/laser-jolts-microscopic-electronic-robots-motion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" >walk<\/a> and fold themselves up, there were always \u201cstrings\u201d attached; to generate motion, wires were used to provide electrical current or laser beams had to be focused directly onto specific locations on the robots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A collaborative effort has installed electronic \u201cbrains\u201d on solar-powered robots that are 100 to 250 micrometers in size \u2013 smaller than an ant\u2019s head \u2013 so that they can walk autonomously without being externally controlled. Cornell researchers installed electronic \u201cbrains\u201d on solar-powered robots that are 100 to 250 micrometers in size, so the tiny bots [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}