Scientists at Cornell School have created a tiny micro-robot that “walks” using four legs. Invisible to the naked eye, 10 of the laptop chip bots might match inside the total stop on the end of this sentence.
Their legs might be independently triggered to bend using laser mild. By toggling the laser forwards and backwards between the front and back legs, the robotic walks.
It’d take decrease than each week to make a swarm of 1,000,000 robots, which Itai Cohen and Paul McEuen Labs hope might very effectively be tailor-made to alter right into a medical software program. They’re small enough to be injected into the physique and Prof Cohen hopes that finally robots like these might very effectively be designed to hunt out and destroy most cancers cells.
(Image: Microbot, Credit score rating: Marc Miskin / Itai Cohen and Paul McEuen Labs / Cornell School, USA.)
Video by Jennifer Inexperienced, interview by Ania Lichtarowicz and Gareth Mitchell.
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