Reported 8 months ago
Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics spent 15 years developing a 2cm-long insect robot inspired by cockroaches, using extremely lightweight materials and miniaturized chips for post-disaster rescue operations and inspecting large infrastructures. This bionic robot, controlled via Bluetooth, can move in tiny crevices and is as small as a pinky fingernail. With a weight of about 200 milligrams, equivalent to 40 hair strands, it reaches speeds comparable to a cockroach, climbing for 10 minutes on a 2-minute charge. These robots are envisioned for disaster response and large-scale infrastructure damage detection, bringing the surrealism of the Ant-Man movie to life.
Source: YAHOO