World’s Smallest Rubber Band Catapults Microbots.



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