Thursday, February 16, 2012

Can Printed Circuit MEMS (PC-MEMS) jump modular robotics to the millimetric scale?


I've been following the Claytronics and Modular robotics for a while now..



However until recently all systems where either to big or too simple:



A revolution was required and today I learned about what might just be it: Harvard's Monolithic Bee.

"...a millimeter-scale flapping wing robotic insect produced using Printed Circuit MEMS (PC-MEMS) techniques."



I cannot avoid raising hopes on how this technology can speedup developments on Claytronics/ Modular Robotics on the micro-scales.