Swarms of tiny robots coordinate to achieve ant-like feats of strength
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2461218-swarms-of-tiny-robots-coordinate-to-achieve-ant-like-feats-of-strength/
Swarms of tiny robots coordinate to achieve ant-like feats of strength
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2461218-swarms-of-tiny-robots-coordinate-to-achieve-ant-like-feats-of-strength/
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“Swarms of tiny robots guided by magnetic fields can coordinate to act like ants, from packing together to form a floating raft to lifting objects hundreds of times their weight.
About the size of a grain of sand, the microrobots could someday do jobs larger bots cannot, such as unblocking blood vessels and delivering drugs to specific locations inside the human body.
The researchers directed the microrobot swarms to cooperatively climb over obstacles five times higher than any single microrobot and form a floating raft on water.”