Self-organizing micro robots may soon swarm the industrial IoT

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Self-organizing micro robots may soon swarm the industrial IoT
Masses of ant-like, self-organizing, microbots could soon perform tasks suc
Vibration-powered micro robots
Self-organizing micro robots that traverse any surface
Even smaller industrial robots

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Miniscule robots that can jump and crawl could soon be added to the industrial internet of things’ arsenal.
The devices, a kind of printed circuit board with leg-like appendages, wouldn’t need wide networks to function but would self-organize and communicate efficiently, mainly with one another.
Vibration-powered micro robots
The first invention is the ability to harness vibration from ultrasound and other sources, such as piezoelectric actuators, to get micro robots to respond to commands.
Researchers at Georgia Tech have created 3D-printed micro robots that are vibration powered.
Only 0.07 inches long, the ant-like devices — which they call “micro-bristle-bots” — have four or six spindly legs and can can respond to differing quivering frequencies and move uniquely, based on their leg design.
Researcher say the microbots could be used to sense environmental changes and to move materials.
“As the micro-bristle-bots move up and down, the vertical motion is translated into a directional movement by optimizing the design of the legs,” says assistant professor Azadeh Ansari in a Georgia Tech article.
Jumping and swimming might also be possible, the researchers say.
Self-organizing micro robots that traverse any surface
In another advancement, scientists at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) say they have overcome limitations on locomotion and can now get tiny, self-organizing robot devices to traverse any kind of surface.
The robots already jump, and now they self-organize.
The Swiss school’s PCB-with-legs robots, en masse, figure for themselves how many fellow microbots to recruit for a particular job.
Additionally, the ad hoc, swarming and self-organizing nature of the group means it can’t fail catastrophically—substitute robots get marshalled and join the work environment as necessary.
Ad hoc networks are the way to go for robots

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