Friday 23 January 2015

Sarah Bergbreiter: Why I make robots the size of a grain of rice (TED Talk)




By studying the movement and bodies of insects such as ants, Sarah Bergbreiter and her team build incredibly robust, super teeny, mechanical versions of creepy crawlies … and then they add rockets. See their jaw-dropping developments in micro-robotics, and hear about three ways we might use these little helpers in the future.