Researchers 3D print cell-sized, shape-shifting robots that move and navigate without a ‘brain’

artifex@piefed.social · 7 hours

These robots are smaller than a strand of human hair but can move independently even without a motor and sensors.

AstroLightz@lemmy.world · 5 hours

“Nanomachines, son”

palordrolap@fedia.io · 3 hours

Neat. Don’t give them the ability to self-replicate and we’re golden.

testaccount372920@piefed.zip · 3 hours

They’re made by a laser 3D printer and they only move in an externally applied electric field. I don’t think we have to worry about anything like that anytime soon :)

5715@feddit.org · 5 hours

Grey goo

MrSulu@lemmy.ml · 6 hours

I’m not very techie, but have scientists now built a robotic Trump?

testaccount372920@piefed.zip · 3 hours

If Trump was a worm and a few tens of micrometers long, then yes

MrSulu@lemmy.ml · 1 hour

I think they started with the penis?

village604@adultswim.fan · 3 hours

So they actually built his penis.

sfxrlz@lemmy.world · 6 hours

Oh fuck

Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 5 hours

Please call them republobots.

Researchers 3D print cell-sized, shape-shifting robots that move and navigate without a ‘brain’

Researchers 3D print robot the size of a single-cell organism — devices move and navigate even without a ‘brain,’ uses their shape and the environment to get going