{"id":220784,"date":"2025-08-23T08:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T13:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/smart-microrobots-learn-to-communicate-and-collaborate-in-water"},"modified":"2025-08-23T08:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T13:23:07","slug":"smart-microrobots-learn-to-communicate-and-collaborate-in-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/smart-microrobots-learn-to-communicate-and-collaborate-in-water","title":{"rendered":"Smart microrobots learn to communicate and collaborate in water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N6aN5qizjB8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a major step toward intelligent and collaborative microrobotic systems, researchers at the Research Center for Materials, Architectures and Integration of Nanomembranes (MAIN) at Chemnitz University of Technology have developed a new generation of autonomous microrobots\u2014termed smartlets\u2014that can communicate, respond, and work together in aqueous environments.<\/p>\n<p>These tiny devices, each just a millimeter in size, are fully integrated with onboard electronics, sensors, actuators, and <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/energy+systems\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">energy systems<\/a>. They are able to receive and transmit optical signals, respond to stimuli with motion, and exchange information with other microrobots in their vicinity.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are published in <i>Science Robotics<\/i>, in a paper titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/scirobotics.adu6007\" target=\"_blank\">Si chiplet\u2013controlled 3D modular microrobots with smart communication in natural aqueous environments<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a major step toward intelligent and collaborative microrobotic systems, researchers at the Research Center for Materials, Architectures and Integration of Nanomembranes (MAIN) at Chemnitz University of Technology have developed a new generation of autonomous microrobots\u2014termed smartlets\u2014that can communicate, respond, and work together in aqueous environments. These tiny devices, each just a millimeter in size, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220784","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}