Microscopic Robots That Sense, Think, Act, and Compute
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| author | Lassiter, Maya M. Lee, Jungho Skelil, Kyle Xu, Li Hanson, Lucas Reinhardt, William H. Sylvester, Dennis Yim, Mark Blaauw, David Miskin, Marc Z. |
| author_facet | Lassiter, Maya M. Lee, Jungho Skelil, Kyle Xu, Li Hanson, Lucas Reinhardt, William H. Sylvester, Dennis Yim, Mark Blaauw, David Miskin, Marc Z. |
| contents | While miniaturization has been a goal in robotics for nearly 40 years, roboticists have struggled to access sub-millimeter dimensions without making sacrifices to on-board information processing due to the unique physics of the microscale. Consequently, microrobots often lack the key features that distinguish their macroscopic cousins from other machines, namely on-robot systems for decision making, sensing, feedback, and programmable computation. Here, we take up the challenge of building a microrobot comparable in size to a single-celled paramecium that can sense, think, and act using onboard systems for computation, sensing, memory, locomotion, and communication. Built massively in parallel with fully lithographic processing, these microrobots can execute digitally defined algorithms and autonomously change behavior in response to their surroundings. Combined, these results pave the way for general purpose microrobots that can be programmed many times in a simple setup, cost under $0.01 per machine, and work together to carry out tasks without supervision in uncertain environments. |
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| spellingShingle | Microscopic Robots That Sense, Think, Act, and Compute Lassiter, Maya M. Lee, Jungho Skelil, Kyle Xu, Li Hanson, Lucas Reinhardt, William H. Sylvester, Dennis Yim, Mark Blaauw, David Miskin, Marc Z. Robotics While miniaturization has been a goal in robotics for nearly 40 years, roboticists have struggled to access sub-millimeter dimensions without making sacrifices to on-board information processing due to the unique physics of the microscale. Consequently, microrobots often lack the key features that distinguish their macroscopic cousins from other machines, namely on-robot systems for decision making, sensing, feedback, and programmable computation. Here, we take up the challenge of building a microrobot comparable in size to a single-celled paramecium that can sense, think, and act using onboard systems for computation, sensing, memory, locomotion, and communication. Built massively in parallel with fully lithographic processing, these microrobots can execute digitally defined algorithms and autonomously change behavior in response to their surroundings. Combined, these results pave the way for general purpose microrobots that can be programmed many times in a simple setup, cost under $0.01 per machine, and work together to carry out tasks without supervision in uncertain environments. |
| title | Microscopic Robots That Sense, Think, Act, and Compute |
| topic | Robotics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23085 |