"Micro-robots" team up to act like vacuum cleaner

Multimedia · Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2011

OSTI ID:1045475

Snezhko, Alexey and Aronson, Igor

"Micro-robots" designed by Argonne National Laboratory physicists Alexey Snezhko and Igor Aronson pick up free-floating particles. The competing hydrodynamic flows created by the four-aster assembly trap the particles. This video is courtesy of Nature Materials. Read more about the bots at http://go.usa.gov/KAT

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• OSTI ID: 1045475
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
ANL
MICRO-ROBOTS
FREE-FLOATING PARTICLES
HYDRODYNAMIC FLOWS