There ’s somethinginherently creepyabout tiny , scuttle robots , and if you need to sum a new terrific bullet point to the robot apocalypse tilt , you might as well come out here . This 6.5 - cm guy can move at 30 body - lengths per second . If it were a full - size of it cable car , that amounts to about 400 international nautical mile per hour .
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Developed by researchers at Johns Hopkins and show off at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Germany , the diminutive unnamed robot is a mere 6.5 by 5.5 by 1 centimeters . But thanks to direct drive and picayune wheeled - branch call “ whegs , ” it could very well be the fastest automaton ever for its sizing . Each wheg has its own ridiculous six millimeter motor that spins at 40,000 RPM ( and costs several hundred dollars ) , and the bot only uses less than half of that exponent since not every sweep of the legs connect with ground quite veracious .
research worker think that if they outfit the bugger with slightly big whegs , they might be able-bodied to get it go even faster , while still retaining the power to climb over stuff in its way and fit in the ribbon of your hand . Who knows what kind of purpose these little bots could be put to but shelling biography is attach to be a headache . For now though , just find out one dart across the floor is cool ( and creepy ) enough . [ IEEE Spectrum ]
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