{"id":3631,"date":"2005-09-16T16:12:31","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T16:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=3631"},"modified":"2005-09-16T16:12:31","modified_gmt":"2005-09-16T16:12:31","slug":"tiniest-controllable-robot-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2005\/09\/tiniest-controllable-robot-made\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiniest Controllable Robot Made"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"blocked\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tinybot-small.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/images\/tinybot-small.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" align=\"right\"\/><br \/>\nThe tiniest mobile robot ever has been created by US researchers. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=dn8007\" class=\"external external_icon\">It is a sliver of silicon one hundredth of a millimetre thick that can be precisely steered like a remote-control car to move in any direction across the surface of a special plate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Powered by a grid of electrodes underneath a surface layer and steered by its tiny silicon paddle, the bot crawls around at a speed of about 200 micrometres per second and can push specks of dust, or other \u00e2\u20ac\u0153dead\u00e2\u20ac\u009d robots. <\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yes, there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.dartmouth.edu\/~brd\/Research\/MEMS\/Movies\/isrr05\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=dn8007\" class=\"external external_icon\">new scientist<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tiniest mobile robot ever has been created by US researchers. It is a sliver of silicon one hundredth of a millimetre thick that can be precisely steered like a remote-control car to move in any direction across the surface of a special plate. Powered by a grid of electrodes underneath a surface layer and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[4927],"class_list":["post-3631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robots","category-video","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}