Bollebozen of Harvard university have a new method for robots developed. The technique allows the mass production of expandable robots, and other small devices as possible, by ‘push-out plates to use.
The production method used by the researchers of Harvard university in Massachusetts has been developed, similar to origami or pop-up-images’. By different layers of material to use flexible connections to be made in flat materials. With a laser the desired shapes pre-cut, and then a robot or other device omhooggedrukt can be. That way, should not only simple robots, but also other electro-mechanical structures suitable for mass production.
The researchers made with eighteen layers of a robot, which they take to the Harvard Monolithic Bee or Mobee called. The layers include carbon fiber, plastic, titanium, copper, and ceramic materials. The Mobee is only 2.4 mm high and can push up the sheet material is ‘activated’. In addition, over twenty fold bent. In this manner, dozens of small robots from a single sheet of material cut and expressed.
The technique is based on the production method for the manufacture of printed circuit boards for the electronics industry, the production of little robots simple and cheap. The electronics can be between the materiaallaagjes be clamped, but also later to be built. Harvard employees are working on their technique are commercially attractive.