Yichen Zhai and his six-legged creationDavid Baillot/University of California San DiegoWhile most people imagine robots as complex electronic devices, made up of several parts that need to be assembled in factories, a new experimental non-electronic robot has been designed to be 3D-printed in one single piece and is powered entirely by air.The soft-bodied robot...
This fuel cell features two different types of fungi metabolizing sugars and microbes to produce electricityEMPASwiss researchers have developed a functional living battery powered by the interaction of two types of fungi, encapsulated in a biodegradable and non-toxic 3D-printed package. The Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA), based in Dübendorf, developed...
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