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22nd February 2012

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futuramb: Tiny Robotic Bee Assembles Itself Like Pop-Up Book | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com With the new method the engineers don’t just fabricate the robot, but also produce a surrounding “assembly scaffold” that’s attached to the bee-bot by tiny hinges. When the scaffold is lifted by pins, it folds the flat robot’s joints and turns it into a 3D model. The Harvard Monolithic Bee (or Mobee), for example, turns from a flat shape into a 2.4-millimetre-tall robot in just one movement — just like a pop-up book. The folding process takes less than a second. The whole structure is made like a printed circuit board. 18 layers of different materials (carbon fiber, a plastic film called Kapton, titanium, brass, ceramic, and adhesive sheets) are laminated together in a thin, laser-cut design. 

futuramb:

Tiny Robotic Bee Assembles Itself Like Pop-Up Book | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

With the new method the engineers don’t just fabricate the robot, but also produce a surrounding “assembly scaffold” that’s attached to the bee-bot by tiny hinges. When the scaffold is lifted by pins, it folds the flat robot’s joints and turns it into a 3D model.

The Harvard Monolithic Bee (or Mobee), for example, turns from a flat shape into a 2.4-millimetre-tall robot in just one movement — just like a pop-up book. The folding process takes less than a second. The whole structure is made like a printed circuit board. 18 layers of different materials (carbon fiber, a plastic film called Kapton, titanium, brass, ceramic, and adhesive sheets) are laminated together in a thin, laser-cut design. 

Source: Wired

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