Micro-robots dance on a less than 1 millimeter stage

[Domo Arigato]

I can't get the video on Youtube so you'll have to go to this page to see it. Anyway, very cool stuff considering that you could be looking at it and not even knowing.

[Rebelgium]

Convieniently linking to your own site...

Here you go, no thanks
[youtube]HLZfeUbJAuY[/youtube]

[SixRingz]

Well, keep up the work guys.... maybe add some IR rangefinders and some wheels? 
Seriously, this is really amazing stuff! Maybe this team could hook up with the Mergatroids. 

[Domo Arigato]

I've put embedded youtube videos in topics before, it just wasn't available yet. 

[bens]

Very cool, but I'm sad they don't explain the actual physics behind what is going on.  How are the robots moving?  What is the control interface?  What are the robots made of?

- Ben

[Spoil9]

That was crazy. We have entered a new world now. How do I know those things are not in the soda I was just drinking and will control my mind when I go to sleep tonight?

[Admin]

[negativity]
These have been around for years, and most people would argue they aren't actually robots.

They have no control center, no internal power, and no built in sensors.

They work by using energy supplied to a very special surface at high frequency using tons of large scale external devices. The 'robot' is just a carefully shaped stick.

Its like having a crumb on your desk, blowing on it, then calling it a robot cause it moves
[/negativity]

More info:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2005/09/14.html

[Spoil9]

So there were no tiny robots in my soft drink yesterday?

[gamefreak]

nope, just bugs.

So its just a modified RFID tag? Less cool then it appears, but to get them to work on things is pretty neat. Although all they did in the video was clump together.