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The ones in the article look like they're basically photocells which get activated by lasers to move the 'legs'. At that scale, you probably couldn't have much
by leggomylibro 7y ago
The ones in the article look like they're basically photocells which get activated by lasers to move the 'legs'.
At that scale, you probably couldn't have much battery power either. Maybe it'd be possible to power a small microcontroller off of radio signals which also send instructions. They wouldn't need to be very "smart" as long as something else in the room was, like a phone or router or something.
- _nalply 7y agoWhen I looked at the animated picture I wondered about the flashing dots on the circuit till I realized that these are probably reflections of the laser beams directed onto the microbot.