Last year, researchers from the Biomimetics and Dextrous Manipulation Lab at Stanford University developed a 12 gram “micro tug” robot capable of moving objects 2000 times its size on glass, enabled by gecko adhesives. The university compared this feat to a human dragging a blue whale.
Now, you can watch a team of six super-strong microTug microrobots, weighing 100 grams pull a 3,900lb car on polished concrete.
The team recently published a paper, “Let’s All Pull Together: Principles for Sharing Large Loads in Microrobot Teams,” regarding their research in Robotics and Automation Letters which is to be presented at ICRA 2016.
Story and video via Biomimetics and Dextrous Manipulation Lab at Stanford University/ YouTube.
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