Tiny But Mighty, Bug-Like Microrobots Are Gaining Strength
With a new kind of artificial muscle, a team at MIT can build diminutive drones that zip around with a bug-like agility and resilience.
“This opens up a lot of opportunity in the future for us to transition to putting power electronics on the microrobot," says senior author of the paper, Kevin Chen .
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