China develops a robot that walks and jumps on water

[cirr]

August 1, 2012

The Hindu : Sci-Tech / Technology : China develops a robot that walks on water

The first bio-inspired microbot is capable of not just walking on water but jumping up and down on the water’s surface like the insect, a study shows.

Qinmin Pan and colleagues from Harbin Institute of Technology and the National Natural Science Foundation of China, reported a number of advances toward tiny robots that can walk on water.

However, even the most advanced designs, including one from Pan’s team last year — can only walk on water. Pan noted that real water striders actually leap, the journal Applied Materials & Interfaces reported.

Pan’s group looked for novel mechanisms and materials to build a true water-striding robot, according to a Harbin Institute statement.

Making a jumping robot is difficult because the downward force needed to propel it into the air usually pushes the legs through the water’s surface.

Using porous, super water-repellent nickel foam to fabricate the three supporting and two jumping legs, the group made a robot that could leap more than 5.5 inches, despite weighing as much as 1,100 water striders.

In experiments conducted at the institute, the robot could jump nearly 14 inches forward— more than twice its own length — leaving the water at about 3.6 miles per hour.

The study authors report that the ability to leap will make the bio-inspired microrobot more agile and better able to avoid obstacles it encounters on the water’s surface.

Keywords: tiny robots, walking on water, Qinmin Pan, Harbin Institute of Technology, National Natural Science Foundation of China, robots

 

[acetophenol]

Water strider!

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

pics?.................or even a video

 

[IZVINITE]

pics?.................or even a video

It will result in Piracy...

 

[kṣamā]

having my roots deep down in robotics I am very excited to exploit this mode of locomotion on water. It would serve a nice platform for innumerable autonomous oceanographic experiments. Gr8 going China !!

 

[artie]

My country has much more advanced robotic technology than China. Btw, most materials & parts used to assemble robots in China are made in Taiwan.

 

[cirr]

Video：

Robot that mimics water strider can walk, jump on water | MNN - Mother Nature Network

 

[Diamond_Gold]

My country has much more advanced robotic technology than China. Btw, most materials & parts used to assemble robots in China are made in Taiwan.

ne jin si taiwan lang meh?

 

[lcloo]

ne jin si taiwan lang meh?

gua kua yi bo si teng lang lai a.

 

[+4vsgorillas-Apebane]

My country has much more advanced robotic technology than China. Btw, most materials & parts used to assemble robots in China are made in Taiwan.

You dont live in a country.
You are a renegade CHINESE province.

 

[Peaceful Civilian]

Congrats good work.

 

[cirr]

You dont live in a country.
You are a renegade CHINESE province.

For all we know， he could be a fake or a dreg and leftover from the old days when Taiwan was occupied by the Japs。

 

[ao333]

For all we know， he could be a fake or a dreg and leftover from the old days when Taiwan was occupied by the Japs。

Lol, typical CCP brainwashing. His views reflect those of Taiwanese youth, the younger generation who will eventually take the government. It is the old and dying generation of ROC Taiwanese who are ambivalent about independence. The Japanese collaborators retired from politics decades ago.

 

[lcloo]

ne jin si taiwan lang meh?

If artie is from Taiwan, he should have answer this question from Diamond_Gold already. Well we are waiting. Otherwise he is a false flag.

artie, please translate this? ne jin si taiwan lang meh?

 

[Diamond_Gold]

You dont live in a country.
You are a renegade CHINESE province.

Relax, he must be a FAKE! And most likely he love and eat CURRY only. LOLOL...