3D-Printed Smart Active Particles
Building conventional robots requires putting together components like motors, batteries, actuators, legs, and wheels. Researchers from Georgia Tech have built robots completely from smaller robots known as smart active particles, or “smarticles." These little robots can only flap their two arms, but when confined in a circle they can form a "supersmarticle" that can move by itself.
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