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Beetlebot carries heavy loads using alcohol-powered artificial muscles – Trading U
By Chris Stokel-Walker RoBeetle: small but powerful Yang et al., Sci. Robot. 5, eaba0015 (2020)One of the world’s smallest microrobots is able to carry
By Chris Stokel-Walker
RoBeetle: small but powerful
Yang et al., Sci. Robot. 5, eaba0015 (2020)
One of the worlds smallest microrobots is able to carry 2.6 times its own body weight thanks to a muscular system powered by alcohol.
Conventionally, the muscles of small robots have been tethered to an external power source. Alternatively, they have been powered by batteries, the weight and size of which have limited efficiency and how small the robots can be. Top-of-the-range batteries have an…
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