"Squishy Robot Walks Through Acid, Fire and Ice" Topic
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Tango01 | 08 Sep 2014 3:55 p.m. PST |
"A few years back, we wrote about this squishy little air-powered legged robot from Harvard with no electronics or moving parts that you could beat down with a hammer and it would still keep walking. The 2011 version of the robot was tethered to external air compressors, but the newest one brings all of its power and control onboard, and you can no longer kill it with fire. Uh oh. The basic design of this robot, developed at Professor George M. Whitesides' lab at Harvard and described in a paper in the journal Soft Robotics, is mostly similar to the one from a few years ago, although being untethered is a very big deal, since it's a requirement for a robot to be able to do something useful outside of a lab. Ghostlike Robot Goes For All-Terrain Action The silicone rubber that the robot has been made out of is extraordinarily tough, such that it can continue to function in subzero temperatures (tested down to -9 degrees Celsius), 40 km/h winds, puddles of up to 5 centimeters of water, and 3,000 Kelvin methane flames for up to 50 seconds. It's also resistant to acid, for whatever that's worth…"
Full article here link Amicalement Armand |
MHoxie | 09 Sep 2014 2:14 a.m. PST |
They run it over, then put it on a barbecue grill. They must really hate that robot. |
capncarp | 09 Sep 2014 7:18 a.m. PST |
"Squishy" did you say??? Better keep it away from Smokey--it may not be able to survive what HE would do to/with it. <shudder> |
Zargon | 09 Sep 2014 10:05 a.m. PST |
The ultimate pet, give it an adorable face with big sad eyes, sell in the millions, then it gets sentient, he he its in the cupboard in you room(you become bored of the latest toy), your asleep, beep! The eyes open.. Pure horror movie. Cheers |
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