{"id":646577,"date":"2010-01-28T14:53:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T19:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/?p=6567"},"modified":"2010-01-28T14:53:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T19:53:07","slug":"the-microbots-are-coming-%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/646577","title":{"rendered":"The microbots are coming \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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… and that sounds like a good thing.<\/p>\n

Via KurzweilAI.net<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Insectlike ‘microids’ might walk, run, work in colonies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Physorg.com, Jan. 27, 2010<\/p>\n

Insectlike “microids” — robots the size of ants that move their tiny legs and mandibles using solid-state “muscles” — have been modeled by Jason Clark, an assistant professor of electrical,\u00a0computer<\/a> and mechanical engineering at Purdue University.<\/p>\n

The microids could have significantly better dexterity than previous microscale robots, while having the ability to “scavenge vibrational\u00a0energy<\/a>” from the environment to recharge their power supply.<\/p>\n

He also envisions the possibility of thousands of microids working in unison and communicating with each other to perform a complex task.<\/p>\n

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\n(Jason Clark)<\/p>\n

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… and that sounds like a good thing. Via KurzweilAI.net: Insectlike ‘microids’ might walk, run, work in colonies Physorg.com, Jan. 27, 2010 Insectlike “microids” — robots the size of ants that move their tiny legs and mandibles using solid-state “muscles” — have been modeled by Jason Clark, an assistant professor of electrical,\u00a0computer and mechanical engineering […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2563,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2IcF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}