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Small robots that mimic the movement of insects (may also include reptiles and fish).
Insect robots
by: Elijah A.
As technological advancements occur more often every year, one of the main aspects of science and engineering, robotics, is advancing as one of the quickest subjects and has led to many amazing feats. One of these feats are called insect robots. Insect robots are robots, as the name implies, the size of an insect and also resembles an insect. The first flying robotic insect was created in 2018, after that was created many more different types of flying insects and insects that couldn’t fly were designed and released into public.The robots were based on specific insects and created with similar structures so that they could take flight if that was their purpose, or have extra mobility. They were created from just simple experiments to actually being used from the government to gather data on a specific area or a group of people.
The specific insect robot I’ll be going over and explaining its purpose is called Robobee(more than one was created). The Robobee was created to understand how bees see the world, or rather how their eyes work and what it would look like through the perspective of those eyes. They were also created to swarm and send information to a specific group of people if needed(this is the current goal and hasn’t been achieved yet). The body resembles a rectangular frame with wings protruding from the top of the frame giving it the ability to fly, the camera is located at the front of the robot. The four subsystems, being mechanical, electrical, electronic, and structural, are represented in the robot by the battery powering most of the electronic parts. The camera being electronic(powered by battery). The wings are mechanical and the inside parts that allow the wings to move when given electricity. The frame is the structural part of the robot. The robot is made out of metal and silicon with a material that contracts when electricity is applied to the material, making an “artificial muscle”. The size of the robot weighs 2/100 of an ounce, with a wingspan of roughly an inch, and a body that is ⅔ of an inch long.
The Robobee insect robot meets the six characteristics of a robot even being as small as an insect. The first aspect is the body, the Robobee does have a physical body. The next characteristic is called the brain, the Robobee does have a brain so it can receive and send information. The third characteristic is called sensors, the robobee does have sensors through the camera and other parts of the body. The fourth characteristic is called Actuators, the bee wings would be controlled by actuators. The next characteristic is a program, the Robobee does have programs to either gather or send information and the programs are received from the brain. The last characteristic is behavior, the bee does exhibit behavior due to its programming.
Websites used: https://interestingengineering.com/bug-life-these-5-robots-were-inspired-by-insects
https://wyss.harvard.edu/technology/robobees-autonomous-flying-microrobots/
Insect Robots
By Carter S.
3/19/2020
Insect robots are a very small class of robots mainly used for surveillance of things like crops and factories. The first one to take flight did so in 2018. They are powered with solar cells as normal batteries are too heavy to hold on it.
One example is the RoboBee. The RoboBee project was started in 2009 and in swarms could potentially “be highly useful in search and rescue efforts and as artificial pollinators.” It weighs less than a toothpick and uses super lightweight solar cells for power and uses an x-shaped wing system for flight. It is about the size of a penny.
The RoboBee is a robot because it has a body, it’s autonomous, it has a camera sensor, it has actuators in the wings for flight, it has a program to search for certain things, and it has flight behavior.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboBee#Design_challenges
Insect Robots
by: Adrian R.
Insect robots are small robots that look like “insects” that are made to spy on people or places. They have small high quality cameras in their bodies or their antennae. They are made to spy places that they don't want to be seen at all. They have several insects that are being used right now and the most common one is the fly because where it is most used is in places like afghanistan there are a lot of flies. They are remote controlled robots that don't have programs.
A solar-powered winged robot has become the lightest machine capable of flying without being attached to a power source.Weighing just 259 milligrams, the insect-inspired RoboBee X-Wing has four wings that flap 170 times per second. It has a wingspan of 3.5 centimetres and stands 6.5 centimetres high. The flying robot was developed by Noah Jafferis and his colleagues at Harvard University.
It does have a body to contain everything together and to help it work and stay together. It has actuators that lets the pilot know what it sees and where it is. It has both cameras and microphones that help the pilot move the robot with ease. It doesn’t have a program as it is piloted by a human and not itself. It has a mechanism that helps it move its wings and its legs. The brain does connect to the cameras that connect to the computer that the pilot has to control it.
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