{"id":173259,"date":"2023-10-01T17:23:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T22:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/micro-robot-disregards-gears-embraces-explosions"},"modified":"2023-10-01T17:23:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T22:23:25","slug":"micro-robot-disregards-gears-embraces-explosions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/micro-robot-disregards-gears-embraces-explosions","title":{"rendered":"Micro Robot Disregards Gears, Embraces Explosions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/micro-robot-disregards-gears-embraces-explosions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Cornell University have developed a tiny, proof of concept robot that moves its four limbs by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2391584-watch-a-frog-like-robot-use-tiny-explosions-to-hop-around\/\" target=\"_blank\">rapidly igniting a combination of methane and oxygen inside flexible joints<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Frog-like-robot-uses-tiny-explosions-to-hop-around-0-3-screenshot.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" data-attachment-id=\"624255\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2023\/09\/30\/micro-robot-disregards-gears-embraces-explosions\/frog-like-robot-uses-tiny-explosions-to-hop-around-0-3-screenshot\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Frog-like-robot-uses-tiny-explosions-to-hop-around-0-3-screenshot.png\" data-orig-size=\"550,550\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{'aperture':'0','credit':'','camera':'','caption':'','created_timestamp':'0','copyright':'','focal_length':'0','iso':'0','shutter_speed':'0','title':'','orientation':'0'}\" data-image-title=\"Frog-like robot uses tiny explosions to hop around 0-3 screenshot\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/micro-robot-disregards-gears-embraces-explosions2.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Frog-like-robot-uses-tiny-explosions-to-hop-around-0-3-screenshot.png?w=550\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/micro-robot-disregards-gears-embraces-explosions2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>The device can\u2019t do much more than blow each limb outward with a varying amount of force, but that\u2019s enough to be able to steer and move the little unit. It has enough power to make some very impressive jumps. The ability to navigate even with such limited actuators is reminiscent of <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2016\/05\/25\/black-line-follower-a-modern-bristlebot\/\">hopped-up bristebots<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Electronic control of combustions in the joints allows for up to 100 explosions per second, which is enough force to do useful work. The prototype is only 29 millimeters long and weighs only 1.6 grams, but it can jump up to 56 centimeters and move at almost 17 centimeters per second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Cornell University have developed a tiny, proof of concept robot that moves its four limbs by rapidly igniting a combination of methane and oxygen inside flexible joints. The device can\u2019t do much more than blow each limb outward with a varying amount of force, but that\u2019s enough to be able to steer and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173259","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}