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Sep 26, 2023

Combustion powers bug-sized robots to leap, lift and race

Posted by in categories: chemistry, cosmology, robotics/AI

Call it the big bang for bug-sized robots.

Cornell researchers combined soft microactuators with high-energy-density chemical fuel to create an insect-scale quadrupedal robot that is powered by combustion and can outrace, outlift, outflex and outleap its electric-driven competitors.

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