China’s robot with light-driven system can be used like bullet, transform ballistics

The launcher can travel a distance 643 times its own body height and could even have the potential to be used like a soft bullet.

A team of researchers led by a Chinese scientists has developed a light-driven launch system for tiny robots. The new development is expected to transform ballistics and aerospace industry.Claimed to release energy in only 0.3 milliseconds, the launcher can take off from any kind of surface., researchers realized a light-driven hydrogel launcher that harnesses fast liquid vapourization triggered by the photothermal response of an embedded graphene suspension.

“This vapourization leads to appreciable elastic energy storage within the surrounding hydrogel network, followed by rapid elastic energy release within 0.3 ms. These soft hydrogel It also has potential to be used like smart-seeding agriculture robot or medicinal robots for deep tissue sampling, according to reports.The small, disk-shaped launcher has a diameter of just 7mm and a thickness of 3mm, but it is able to travel more than 1.93 metres vertically.

Using accumulated strain energy-fracture method, researchers created the artificial squirting cucumber that disperses artificial seeds over metres, which can further achieve smart seeding through an integrated radio-frequency identification chip.This power-amplification strategy provides a basis for propulsive motion to advance the capabilities of miniaturized soft robotic systems, according to research.

Researchers also claimed that the system could be used in ballistic weapons. However, they have not conducted any special test in this area.The team demonstrated the use of the launcher in a smart seed robot by attaching a seed and radio-frequency identification to the hydrogel matrix.

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