6 robots 15 grams each towing an car of 1800 kilos, it is not every day that one can see this feat!
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Yet this is what managed to achieve a team of researchers in robotics and outcome of Stanford University in California. This is a real technological feat, because the robots in question are able to tow up to 2,000 times their weight. To prove the truth of this feat, the Stanford team has posted the following video, where you can see the six MicroTug pull a car nearly two tons.
How to explain this technological feat?
In most cases, it is not by force, but adhesion to achieve this kind of result. Nature shows us regularly via the insect world, where it is not uncommon to see an ant or a spider push or pull animals or objects sometimes 10, 100 or 1000 times heavier than them. The robotics team that created the MicroTug decided to optimize adhesion.
Robots have a sort of micro rubber sole of bristles is positioned in the direction opposite to the traction. This is what gives such force to robots. The second advantage of MicroTug to achieve pull a car nearly two tons, is teamwork. It is well known, unity is strength, so the MicroTug robots working as a team and are perfectly synchronized, which multiplies their potential.
As you can see from the video, do not expect an impressive traction, the robots can work only very slowly, the video of Stanford University has also been accelerated twenty times, so that we can view vehicle forward. The applications of this technology are still unclear, but there is no doubt they will have an important place in the field of industry, transport and logistics.
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Yet this is what managed to achieve a team of researchers in robotics and outcome of Stanford University in California. This is a real technological feat, because the robots in question are able to tow up to 2,000 times their weight. To prove the truth of this feat, the Stanford team has posted the following video, where you can see the six MicroTug pull a car nearly two tons.
How to explain this technological feat?
In most cases, it is not by force, but adhesion to achieve this kind of result. Nature shows us regularly via the insect world, where it is not uncommon to see an ant or a spider push or pull animals or objects sometimes 10, 100 or 1000 times heavier than them. The robotics team that created the MicroTug decided to optimize adhesion.
Robots have a sort of micro rubber sole of bristles is positioned in the direction opposite to the traction. This is what gives such force to robots. The second advantage of MicroTug to achieve pull a car nearly two tons, is teamwork. It is well known, unity is strength, so the MicroTug robots working as a team and are perfectly synchronized, which multiplies their potential.
As you can see from the video, do not expect an impressive traction, the robots can work only very slowly, the video of Stanford University has also been accelerated twenty times, so that we can view vehicle forward. The applications of this technology are still unclear, but there is no doubt they will have an important place in the field of industry, transport and logistics.