World's Smallest Rubber Band Catapults Microbots.

Posted by Alex in Everything Else on April 5, 2007 at 11:47 am


Electrical engineer Sarah Bergbreiter of UC Berkeley has created the world’s smallest rubber band (and catapult!): a nine-micron-thick, two-millimeter-long rubber band that allows microbot to catapult itself through the air like a flea.

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One comment to "World's Smallest Rubber Band Catapults Microbots."

  1. JMT
    April 6th, 2007 at 11:19 am

    First!

    Oops, wrong thread.


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