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Researchers 3D print cell-sized, shape-shifting robots that move and navigate without a ‘brain’ (www.tomshardware.com)
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These robots are smaller than a strand of human hair but can move independently even without a motor and sensors.

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[–] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

For those wondering: The energy source is an alternating external electric field

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    This has gotta be the 10th "We have invented Nano-Bots!!! (That are really just shapes controlled by a big magnet outside the body) That I have seen in the past decade or 2)

    It's the equivalent of moving around a mini sailboat in a pool using a leaf blower. Just because you found ways to make it move in incredible ways, doesn't make it a robot.

    None of them are ever robots and none of them are ever Nano-Bots. Yes, they are useful advances in medicine, but every article, (and seemingly the researchers too,) love to sensationalize them to high heaven.

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