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Pop-up fabrication of a robotic bee

Posted by Chris Anderson on December 1, 2011 at 4:04pm


From the video description: 

The Harvard Monolithic Bee is a millimeter-scale flapping wing robotic insect produced using Printed Circuit MEMS (PC-MEMS) techniques. This video describes the manufacturing process, including pop-up book inspired assembly. This work was funded by the NSF, the Wyss Institute, and the ASEE. Music: D-Song by Bonobo

See "Pop-up Book MEMS":
https://micro.seas.harvard.edu/publications.html

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  • 3D Robotics
    Julian December 2, 2011 at 1:46pm

    Def does not fly, it appears as though it was just a proof of concept for an alternative method of fabrication for micro structures  interesting enough, buttttttt, it doesnt work, yet at least

  • iangl December 2, 2011 at 4:37am

    Does it even fly?

  • iangl December 2, 2011 at 4:35am

    Impressive. But what if nature makes flies grow "down to up" while we build "up to down" a micro robot creature? How primitive we are...

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    Gary Mortimer December 1, 2011 at 11:37pm

    All this work makes everything look bloated and overweight. If you fail to get excited about UAS development then you can't have an imagination. Amazing stuff.

  • Developer
    Randy December 1, 2011 at 4:33pm

    Amazing.

     

    I'd rather do it with a 3d printer capable of using multiple materials but I guess this is the best way such printers actually exist.

  • Geoffrey L. Barrows December 1, 2011 at 4:28pm

    There are some pretty fascinating results coming out of that project.

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