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Disregarding the engineering of the bee itself (which is equally amazing) the fabrication process is brilliant. 2 things come to mind when I watch this. A. I
by 51Cards 15y ago
Disregarding the engineering of the bee itself (which is equally amazing) the fabrication process is brilliant. 2 things come to mind when I watch this. A. I live in the future. B. There are people out there far more intelligent than I. Consider my mind blown.
I wonder if they are working on a method to power the bee for actual flight. Of course it has no control system either at this point. Off to read more. Thanks to the poster for the link.
- swombat 15y agoA. I live in the future. Indeed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyMdOT8YJgY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyMdOT8YJgY Enjoy.
- orborde 15y agoThis is intensely interesting but completely off topic.
- Lost_BiomedE 15y agoLook up Erik Demaine, winner of a 2003 MacArthur genius award. You may have seen him on the 'in between the folds' origami documentary. I have a feeling that this process has a lot to do with his past work in origami and algorithms. His website: http://erikdemaine.org http://erikdemaine.org Intro to folding: http://erikdemaine.org/folding/ http://erikdemaine.org/folding/
- jamesbritt 15y agoBetween the Folds is a great documentary. Amazing stuff, both artistically and in engineering.
- kiba 15y agoThey probably accomplish stuff faster than you but I don't think it's impossible for you to develop robots like those bees. It just that it required hard work chipping away at those little microproblems.
- ramblerman 15y agoevery thread needs a motivational speaker