More Microbots

Tiny Motor

From a cellphone I think. I found one about this size in a broken CD player recently.

Bristlebot Inchworm with Biometal

This metal was all the rage back in the 70s – I can remember reading magazines filled with pictures of Luke Skywalker… raving about this new wonder-metal that could remember its shape. 20-30 years later… inchbot. Still, it’s a good inchbot.

I love the comments on this one:
ROFLMAO sexy time!!
nice bot, how do u make their “brain”?
how can they get-by by themselves?

a proper microbot

“A gold/nickel microrobot of 300x300x70 micrometer (10^-6 m) dashing through a maze of photoresist walls.
The robot is controlled by visual servoing, i.e. the user clicks a spot and the computer steers it there.

For more information see other videos and comments, our webpage (http://www.iris.ethz.ch/msrl/research/s pecial/nanogram/) or Google it.”

Little Baby Tanklet