Microrobots
Research inspired by teamwork in ants has helped inform methods that microrobots can move large objects as a team. Now a team of roboticists from Stanford has used just six super strong microrobot weighing just 100 grams altogether to pull a 3900lb (1800kg) car on polished concrete.
Ants impressively strong and are also amazing team players. Robotics researchers have long turned to these amazing insects as inspiration for microrobot work. By combining the teamwork and strength of ants with the sticky feat of geckos, have produced a striking result.
At Stanford University's Biomimetics and Dexterous Manipulation Lab (BDML), experiments involving impulsive bristlebots, small walking and running hexapods, and a version that uses gecko-inspired adhesion instead of friction has led to a truly amazing feat of microrobotics. Using just six super strong microrobot weighing just 100 grams altogether, the team were able to pull a 3900lb (1800kg) car on polished concrete.
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Each BLML microTug microrobot can operate at its individual limit so that a team of six pulls with forces exceeding 200 N.
The researchers' paper titled Let's All Pull Together: Principles for Sharing Large Loads in Microrobot Teams, will be presented at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Stockholm this May.
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