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New research has created robots that change ways using iam in their perimeters and motorized gears at their ends to generate movement.
Scientists have conceived revolutionary robotic material that acts as a living organism, inspired by the way embryos develop. These disc -shaped robots use iam, engines and light for alternate between rigid and fluid states. Development can make way to self-tapered and adaptable materials with broad applications in engineering and medicine.
According to the one published on Science, the team created a system in which individual disc -shaped robots, similar to Small hockey recordsif they can self-monitor in various structures with different material resistances.
To conceive the robots that change shape, researchers studied embryonic development. To this end, they were based on the experience of physicist Otger Campàs, whose work revealed how the embryos can temporarily soften – similar to the fusion of the glass – to shape specific forms. Embryonic cells are able to alternate between solid and fluid states through processes known as transitions of rigidity.
The team applied Three Biological Principles Fundamental to their robots: the forces that cells exert on each other to move, biochemical signaling to coordinate movement and adhesion that provides structural stability, refers.
The ability of the robotic material to switch between rigid and fluid states is possible thanks to lights, engines and light sensors. The robots adhere to each other Using Imars in their perimeterswhile motorized gears at their ends generate movement.
Light sensors act as a coordination system, telling each unit how to move. When exposed to a polarized light field, robots can collectively determine the direction in which they should run their gears, allowing synchronized changes.
This concept proof system is currently composed of 20 Relatively large robotsbut the simulations suggest that it can be expanded to thousands of smaller units. These robotic materials will be able to revolutionize fields such as soft robotics, intelligent structures and the physics of active matter.
