Posted on 12/23/2024 12:20:49 PM PST by BenLurkin
Scientists in South Korea have unveiled swarms of tiny magnetic robots that mimic the collaborative strength of ants to achieve incredible tasks, from carrying heavy cargo to navigating complex environments.
These microrobots, described in a study published in the journal Device, could one day tackle challenges such as clearing clogged arteries or precisely guiding organisms.
The team, led by Jeong Jae Wie from Hanyang University in Seoul, developed the robots to operate under a rotating magnetic field, enabling them to work together in swarms. Their potential applications include minimally invasive medical treatments and other tasks in difficult-to-reach environments.
Wie and his team tested how swarms with different configurations performed various tasks. One test showed a swarm of 1,000 microrobots forming a dense raft on water, enabling them to wrap around a pill weighing 2,000 times more than any robot. The swarm successfully transported the pill across liquid—a promising step toward drug delivery applications. A video of this performance can be seen here.
On dry land, the robots demonstrated similarly impressive feats. A swarm transported cargo 350 times heavier than an individual robot. Another swarm was able to unclog tubes designed to simulate blocked blood vessels. Further tests had the robot swarm drag an ant for some distance.
In another experiment, swarms configured with high aspect ratios climbed obstacles five times taller than a single robot’s body length and propelled themselves over barriers. The researchers even developed a system that allowed the microrobots to guide the movements of small organisms using spinning and orbital dragging motions.
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Didn’t we see this movie already?
It didn’t end well................
My next colonoscopy is gonna be lit.
Ants do it better, faster, and certainly cheaper.
“””Navigate Obstacles and Carry Heavy Objects”””
Ranger robots.
Program it to carry Biden out of the white Hut.
I hope they’re all on leashes for my next one…
Hasn’t anyone watched “Stargate SG1”? Do you NOT know about the Replicators? Fools!
Why would aliens who could travel throughout the galaxy at superluminal velocities to get here use big stones to build pyramids? How could they get that advanced without discovering concrete at some point during their technological development?
Big Hero 6...
It's how I taught my granddaughter to keep food out of her school backpack.
When I saw ants create a floating bridge across a creek to carry crumbs of something they really must have wanted, I was flummoxed. It wasn’t a still body of water! It was a moving creek! Ants all locked in grip while the other ants carried supplies.
I don’t consider insects as life per se, so much as bio-machines. I find them a better argument for Intelligent Design than the human being. You don’t find the former lighting one of their own species on fire on a subway just for the fun of it.
amazing..
One collective machine with chemical and body movement communications. Genetic modification performed as needed based on hive government directives.
They do banish all the males about a week before the first frost, leaving them to die elsewhere. All the workers are sexually undeveloped females. Only the queen lays fertilized eggs from male sperm she stores inside her body from a one time mating. Only the queens are allowed to come to sexual maturity. Here’s the crazy thing.....males come from unfertilized eggs! In early spring, the workers force the queen to lay unfertilized eggs, which produce male bees. Those males are given hive privileges until the fall frost, then death. It’s a cold winter and they need to manage food reserves. Males are not welcome at that point.
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