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SUMMARY:Biomimetic Millirobots
DTSTART:20121119T120000
DTSTAMP:20260407T091040Z
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DESCRIPTION:Ronald S. Fearing\, University of California\, Berkeley\nDecim
 eter to centimeter-scale robots will create the opportunity to manipulate\
 , sense\, and explore a widerange of environments with greatly reduced cos
 t and expanded capabilities.  In many applications\, the capability of mi
 llirobots depends on three factors: 1) intelligence\, 2) mobility\, and 3)
  multiplicity. Macroscale robots are explicitly made intelligent by adding
  planning\, sensing\, computation\, and control capabilities. With miniatu
 re electronics\, some of this intelligence can even be brought to palm or 
 finger size robots. For these small robots\, with high power-to-weight rat
 ios\, and high surface area-to-weight ratios\, aspects of intelligent beha
 vior (such as high mobility) can arise from intrinsic mechanics. Recent ad
 vances in fabrication techniques allow low-cost manufacture of robot mecha
 nisms which can exploit this size scale.  The study of small animals such
  as insects\, birds\, and lizards has lead to "implicit intelligence'' pri
 nciples which can be applied to biomimetic millirobots. There remain signi
 ficant challenges for millirobots in achieving all-terrain mobility\, but 
 combiningthese new mechanisms with advanced sensing should allow cooperati
 ve teams of robots to access environments which are too difficult for curr
 ent robots.
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