Science Daily February 13, 2019 To navigate safely in hostile environment, desert ants assess their direction from the polarized pattern of skylight and judge the distance traveled based on both a stride-counting method and the optic flow. Using this concept a team of researchers in France has designed AntBot equipped with an optical compass used to determine its direction by means of polarized light, and by an optical movement sensor directed to the sun to measure the distance covered. Armed with this information, AntBot was able to explore its environment and to return on its own to its base, with […]
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How to mass produce cell-sized robots
MIT News October 23, 2018 Researchers at MIT developed a method for controlling the natural fracturing process of atomically-thin, brittle materials, directing the fracture lines so that they produce miniscule pockets of a predictable size and shape. Embedded inside these pockets are electronic circuits and materials that can collect, record, and output data. The system uses graphene, which forms the outer structure of the tiny syncells. Tiny dots of a polymer material, containing the electronics for the devices, are deposited by an inkjet printer. Syncells has potential for use in industrial or biomedical monitoring… read more. Video TECHNICAL ARTICLE