Battery-free robots use origami to change shape in mid-air washington.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washington.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Researchers in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis have long sought to understand the power of locusts’ sensing, computing and locomotory capabilities. With a $4.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation, they will converge that research to develop a “cyborg,” or mobile robot or drone, that can mimic the locusts’ behaviors.
Researchers at the University of Washington have developed small robotic devices that can change how they move through the air by “snapping” into a folded position during their descent.When these “microfliers” are dropped from a drone, they use a Miu
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At the University of Washington, scientists have come up with a small robotic device that has the potential to alter how they move via the air by so-called “snapping” into a folded position during their descent.