Robot origami folds itself

For many years, a group of researchers from MIT and the Harvard university of working to create origami robots that would be able to fold itself into an arbitrary shape.

August 7, they report that broke the final frontier: the robot is almost entirely made of parts made by laser cutter can put themselves and crawl. Besides the main components used batteries.

"The exciting thing is that you are creating a device that turns in a few minutes from the flat state to the volume and even the ability to move," says Daniela Rus and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.

Rus began to work with Eric Demeynom Professor MIT, and three other researchers at Harvard - Sam Felton, Michael Tolley and Rob Wood.

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in the spring, Rus, Demeyn, Wood, and five other MIT and Harvard researchers have provided documentation on robots that have their own could be assembled from materials pre-cut on a laser cutter.

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The robot is constructed of five layers of materials. A middle layer of copper, it is clamped from above and below by two paper layers: the outer layer consists of a polymer which develops upon heating.

After laser cutting laminates attached to the surface of a microprocessor and a number of small motors. This model uses two engines, each of which controls the two legs on each side of the robot; motors are synchronized by a microprocessor. Each leg, in turn, has eight mechanical linkages that transmit the force from the legs to the engine.



The design of this robot must demonstrate not only the ability to generate traffic, but also from the ability to create a flat, something three-dimensional.

Information taken from the site Phys.org
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