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Physicists take first step toward cell-sized robots

02-Jan-2018

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Robot exoskeleton can rapidly change shape upon sensing chemical or thermal changes.

The machines move using a motor called a bimorph made from graphene and glass.

Team produced the thinnest bimorph ever made.

Devices are compatible with semiconductor manufacturing.

Puts the computational power of the spaceship Voyager onto an object the size of a cell.

Work outlined in “Graphene-based Bimorphs for Micron-sized, Autonomous Origami Machines."

The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Itai Cohen

Associate Professor of Physics at Cornell University.

Paul McEuen

Director at Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

Multidisciplinary scientific journal, official journal of the National Academy of Sciences

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