Tag #Shape-Shifting

What is the key innovation of the Tsinghua University micro-robot, and what are its immediate practical implications?

A team from Tsinghua University developed a 9cm, 25g untethered terrestrial-aerial micro-robot, published in Nature Machine Intelligence. This robot uses a novel thin-film actuator enabling continuous shape-shifting and locking, unlike previous designs. Its speed on the ground reaches 1.6 meters per second.