Imagine cooking up Shrinky Dinks that walk away when you take them out of the oven
Harvard researchers are using the principles of origami - and the plastic sheeting used by Shrinky Dinks - to create robots that can unfold and scuttle away.
The team started with a flat sheet, to which it added two motors, two batteries, and a microcontroller, which acts like the robot’s brain, Felton said. The sheet was a composite of paper and Shrinky Dinks, also called polystyrene, and a flexible circuit board in the middle. It also included hinges that were programmed to fold at specific angles. Each hinge contained embedded circuits that produce heat on command from the microcontroller. The heat triggers the composite to fold itself in a series of steps.
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MIT too
MIT and Hahvahd engineers.
"Walk" away...
That's a very loose definition of the term "walk".
New retelling of a classic
Run and run until your shoes are hot
You can't catch me - I'm the Gingerbread bot
Get to the point
I want to see these robits walking around