Is it the smallest robot in the world?

azmax100

I've come across this;



Is this the smallest or the i-sobot.

Franklin

No, www.popularmechanics.com/science/extreme_machines/1280816.html and there are "robots" being built on the molecular level but there not much fun to play with.

▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔
- Stephen

Steve in NM

Small and fun!·· http://www.sandia.gov/media/NewsRel/NR2001/minirobot.htm


▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔
I'm not a complete idiot! Some of my parts are missing.

Franklin

Steve, seems I've seen that picture somewhere else [noparse];)[/noparse]

▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔
- Stephen

Beau Schwabe

In 1995 I was privileged to be a part of a technology information exchange program with Sandia labs and the company that I worked for. The robots that Steve point out are big in comparison to some that I have seen at Sandia's site and that was 13 years ago. I saw a petree dish under a microscope with a few dozen "robots" with basic forward-straight / backwards-turn functionality. When they bumped something, they simply reversed directions forward or backward.

Here are some of the motor basics for those robots...
mems.sandia.gov/gallery/movies_motors.html

Gears and transmission:
mems.sandia.gov/gallery/movies_gears_and_transmissions.html

Gear Chains:
mems.sandia.gov/gallery/movies_gear_chains.html

A few Bugs....
mems.sandia.gov/gallery/movies_bugs_on_mems.html

▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔
Beau Schwabe

IC Layout Engineer
Parallax, Inc.

Zoot

Robot-Maker.co.uk will soon be relasing "nano-bot" kits -- they've been in testing pre-prod. for a while (I've been keeping tabs on their work eagerly) and my guess is sometime later this year or early '09 these will be available:

www.robotmaker.co.uk/index_robot_chassis.htm

(P.S. Beau -- I worked on the original MEMS machine project for Sandia as vendor 93-96 -- as a vendor doing large displays for exhibits of the electron microscope photos).

▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- HST

1uffakind.com/robots/povBitMapBuilder.php
1uffakind.com/robots/resistorLadder.php

Beau Schwabe

Zoot,

"(P.S. Beau -- I worked on the original MEMS machine project for Sandia as vendor 93-96 -- as a vendor doing large displays for exhibits of the electron microscope photos)." -· Then we probably crossed paths and didn't even know it.· Who knows, we were probably in the same building.· Neat place!! ... We were making regular trips to Albuquerque, New Mexico during that time frame.· At that time I worked for a prosthetic facility in the robotics research and development division as we were part of a technology exchange program through Tinker Air Force base and Sandia Labs.







▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔
Beau Schwabe

IC Layout Engineer
Parallax, Inc.

noobmuncher

Wow it would cool to have a few of those nanobots, but my hands would be too shaky to do that small of work : ( too bad.

Beau Schwabe

Came across this during a search on different types of solar engines...·· Enjoy!

http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2007_06_24_archive.html

http://bp2.blogger.com/_FoXyvaPSnVk/RoPi8qX3XvI/AAAAAAAANS0/wBtCzoX0p6o/s1600-h/Carscoop_Solar_mini.jpg


·

▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔
Beau Schwabe

IC Layout Engineer
Parallax, Inc.

Post Edited (Beau Schwabe (Parallax)) : 9/7/2008 2:59:54 AM GMT

azmax100

Wow, that is small.
Beau, Parallax should do the brain for that solar mini.

iamdenteddisk

Got to love those mini bots but our technology is so much more advanced than you see in these articles, we have known micro robots small enough to be injected through a hypodermic needle suspended in liquids the problem is that they are useless to the medical field because they dont posess the brute power to overcome the turbulance of blood corseing through veins and endup passing through the heart causeing coronary just like a blood clot yet we still can use them for gastro intestional exploritory procedures but who wants to reuse a poop bot,or retrive one for data collection for that matter.. for now the reliable pill sized micro cam & transmitter is verry popular because it is encased in glass or resinous material and can be sterolized in an autoclave for reuse. But even still I belive I opt out of swallowing a pill that came from someones........I think Id just have to look over at my family and say doctor say's Im gonna die.....still we are attempting the infamous "microassembler" an idea hatched form star trek to assemble compounds from smaller particles useing microscopic robots the idea is an injection of these bots could in theory make needed medicines from seriums in the body without the need for chemicals I think its barking up the wrong tree but hope they continue their studies.