Created Origami Robot for $ 100

In a scientific project of MIT and Harvard University researchers have been able to construct a small robot that autonomously folds of a space-saving piece of paper into a working machine. This prototype will mark the beginning of a new development, which - it is hoped - culminates in affordable and versatile robots.

Engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University to construct a small, complex machine that transforms from a sheet of paper into a functioning robot succeeded. In this endeavor, the clever inventor of origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, the Transformers franchise and the children's toys "Shrinky Dinks" were inspired. The handy robot consists of materials, all of which are available for affordable $ 100 in hobby and craft stores.

On a pre-cut and pre-folded floor plan that looks at first glance like a geographical map, small batteries and motors are mounted. After activating the motors bring the robot to stand up and be placed on four legs, at once to crawl off. The whole transformation process from a flat sheet of ready-runner takes four minutes. In their project engineers, however, no ordinary printer paper used. The base surface of the rotor consists of a five-layer combination of paper, flexible printed circuit boards and a special form of plastic, so-called shape memory polymers. The printed circuit boards generate heat up to 100 degrees Celsius, which brings the material to itself to bend at certain points, which act as hinges. Determine the mechanical properties, in how far to bend each of these hinge joints. The precise folding of the basic model has been generated with an origami program and is firmly embedded in the microcontroller of the robot. Once the rotor is upright, interacts with a motor the individual links of the leg portions and brings the robot to crawl autonomously and without human assistance forward. On the website of Science magazine you will find a video showing the capabilities of the small rotor.

Small robots are looking for wreck victims

The proposed machine is only a first prototype. Until now, the makers have not even thought of a name for her work. Nevertheless, they connect with him before the great hope that it heralds the production of small, fast and above all inexpensive robots that also depending on usage would be individually customized. A first insert the engineers already in mind: The little robot could collapsed in the rubble of buildings will be used to search for casualties.

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