Microscale robot folds into 3D shapes and crawls Date: September 11, 2024 Source: Cornell University Summary: Researchers have created microscale robots less than 1 millimeter in size that are ...

Technology nowadays can really spur creativity and there's nothing you can't do with a 3D printer, CAAD and some skills. Like a surveillance military robot.

Depending which hinges are activated, the robot can adopt various shapes and potentially wrap itself around other objects, and then unfold itself back into a flat sheet.

“Every block of expanded polystyrene foam has a statue inside it and it is the task of the dual-arm hot wire-wielding robot to discover it.” — [Michelangelo], probably. Be prepare… ...

For robots though, picking up a variety of shapes poses a significant challenge. Thanks to work carried out at the University of California Berkeley, at least one robot is handily overcoming that ...