{"id":80869,"date":"2018-07-23T11:42:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T18:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/researchers-design-self-powered-robots-the-size-of-human-cells"},"modified":"2018-07-23T11:42:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T18:42:22","slug":"researchers-design-self-powered-robots-the-size-of-human-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/researchers-design-self-powered-robots-the-size-of-human-cells","title":{"rendered":"Researchers design self-powered robots the size of human cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-design-self-powered-robots-the-size-of-human-cells2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2018\/cell-sized-robots-sense-their-environment-0723\">latest robots<\/a> out of MIT are small enough to float \u201cindefinitely\u201d in the air. Researchers accomplished the feat by attaching 2D electronics to colloids \u2014 tiny particles measuring around one-billionth to one-millionth of a meter. All told, the devices are roughly the size of a human egg cell.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, the addition of photodiode semiconductors means the tiny individual systems are able to be self-powered, without the need for a battery. The system converts light into a small electrical charge that\u2019s enough to keep the device\u2019s on-board environmental sensors running, while storing on-board information.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-design-self-powered-robots-the-size-of-human-cells.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"446\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/07\/23\/researchers-design-self-powered-robots-the-size-of-human-cells\/\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/07\/23\/researchers-design-self-po...man-cells\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest robots out of MIT are small enough to float \u201cindefinitely\u201d in the air. Researchers accomplished the feat by attaching 2D electronics to colloids \u2014 tiny particles measuring around one-billionth to one-millionth of a meter. All told, the devices are roughly the size of a human egg cell. What\u2019s more, the addition of photodiode [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80869","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}