{"id":93846,"date":"2019-07-18T12:22:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T19:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/tiny-vibration-powered-robots-the-size-of-the-worlds-smallest-ant"},"modified":"2019-07-18T12:22:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T19:22:42","slug":"tiny-vibration-powered-robots-the-size-of-the-worlds-smallest-ant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/tiny-vibration-powered-robots-the-size-of-the-worlds-smallest-ant","title":{"rendered":"Tiny vibration-powered robots the size of the world\u2019s smallest ant"},"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\/JgEnX7kADNE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have created a new type of tiny 3D-printed robot that moves by harnessing vibration from piezoelectric actuators, ultrasound sources or even tiny speakers. Swarms of these \u201cmicro-bristle-bots\u201d might work together to sense environmental changes, move materials\u2014or perhaps one day repair injuries inside the human body.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/prototype+robots\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">prototype robots<\/a> respond to different <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/vibration\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">vibration<\/a> frequencies depending on their configurations, allowing researchers to control individual bots by adjusting the vibration. Approximately two millimeters long\u2014about the size of the world\u2019s smallest ant\u2014the bots can cover four times their own length in a second despite the physical limitations of their small size.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are working to make the technology robust, and we have a lot of potential applications in mind,\u201d said Azadeh Ansari, an assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. \u201cWe are working at the intersection of mechanics, electronics, biology and physics. It\u2019s a very rich area and there\u2019s a lot of room for multidisciplinary concepts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have created a new type of tiny 3D-printed robot that moves by harnessing vibration from piezoelectric actuators, ultrasound sources or even tiny speakers. Swarms of these \u201cmicro-bristle-bots\u201d might work together to sense environmental changes, move materials\u2014or perhaps one day repair injuries inside the human body. The prototype robots respond to different vibration frequencies depending [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93846","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}