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julie
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Dust Sized Robotic Fleas to the Rescue!

04/05/2007 9:45 AM

A UC Berkeley researcher has fabricated a solar powered microrobot prototype that can jump nearly 30 times its height using the world's smallest rubber band. The simple microbot is just 7 millimeters long and can jump 200 millimeters high. The rubber band that enables the jumping is cut in a circular strip measuring just 9 microns thick and 2 millimeters long out of a thin sheet of silicone using an infrared laser...Read more about the research here and here.
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Re: Dust Sized Robotic Fleas to the Rescue!

07/08/2008 6:22 AM

<...A UC Berkeley researcher has fabricated a solar powered microrobot prototype that can jump nearly 30 times its height using the world's smallest rubber band...>

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