A tiny robot runs on liquid power | Science News

Published: 21 August 2020
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This beetle bot may weigh only as much as three grains of rice but to crawl it needs a tiny yet mighty source of fuel. Instead of tethering it to a power source, scientists stowed methanol inside the robot's body, where it powers an artificial micromuscle. That self-contained fuel could be a crucial advance in creating bots that can swarm into tight spaces during search-and-rescue missions.

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Carmen Drahl

Production
Mike Denison

Video
Xiufeng Yang
N.O. Pérez-Aranciba

Music
“Happy Ending” by Podington Bear (CC BY-NC 3.0)

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Citation
X. Yang, L. Chang and N.O. Pérez-Arancibia. An 88-milligram insect-scale autonomous
crawling robot driven by a catalytic artificial muscle. Science Robotics. Published
online August 19, 2020. doi: 10.1126/scirobotics.aba0015.

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