artifex@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoResearchers 3D print cell-sized, shape-shifting robots that move and navigate without a ‘brain’www.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up199arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up196arrow-down1external-linkResearchers 3D print cell-sized, shape-shifting robots that move and navigate without a ‘brain’www.tomshardware.comartifex@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square10fedilinkfile-text
These robots are smaller than a strand of human hair but can move independently even without a motor and sensors.
minus-squarepalordrolap@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoNeat. Don’t give them the ability to self-replicate and we’re golden.
minus-squaretestaccount372920@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoThey’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 :)
Neat. Don’t give them the ability to self-replicate and we’re golden.
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 :)