Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Sarah Bergbreiter: Why I make robots the size of a grain of rice

Hell you could send them on a cleanup mission to scrape the plaque off arterial walls. As long as you would be able to put them in reverse and they carry their garbage collected back out with them. Or maybe have them plug those bleeds. The possibilities are endless if we had any innovative thinkers at all within the stroke world.
http://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_bergbreiter_why_i_make_robots_the_size_of_a_grain_of_rice?
By studying the movement and bodies of insects such as ants, Sarah Bergbreiter and her team build incredibly robust, super teeny, mechanical versions of creepy crawlies … and then they add rockets. See their jaw-dropping developments in micro-robotics, and hear about three ways we might use these little helpers in the future.

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