Hmm, musing the use of this.
A Modular Building Platform for the Most Ingenious of Robots
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (Germany), April 29, 2021
Scientists at Germany's Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) have developed a system for fabricating soft miniature robots in a modular fashion. MPI-IS's Jiachen Zhang said, "You can put the individual soft parts together in any way you wish, with no limitations on what you can achieve. In this way, each robot has an individual magnetization profile." The process fabricates thousands of voxels (three-dimensional pixels) in one step, and the researchers use tiny mold casts to generate individual blocks no longer than about 100 micrometers. Said MPI-IS's Metin Sitti, "By mixing and matching, we enable tailor-made functionalities and complex robot morphologies."
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