This Tiny Flying Robot Is Built Like a Pop-Up Book
Let’s say you want to build a swarm of inch-long flying robots. (Maybe you’ve got a DARPA grant. Maybe it’s an art project—imagine if those moved.) Flying is complicated and requires a lot of mechanical linkages and electrical connections. You can machine and assemble one robot by hand, under a microscope, with tweezers and a scalpel; it’s a literal pain in the neck, but it’s doable. But are you really going to do that for a hundred of them? A thousand? A million?
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