Research group, including Vietnamese, makes world’s smallest ‘living robot’

The remote-controlled ‘living robot’ weighs only 1 gramBy Tuoi Tre News

November 18, 2017, 14:59 GMT+7

​Research group, including Vietnamese, makes world’s smallest ‘living robot’
The remote-controlled robot weighs only 1 gram, and cost US$7.4 to make.

A research team consisting of two Vietnamese has created an ‘insect-computer hybrid,’ or a kind of ‘living robot’ the size of a beetle.

The research team from Singapore-based Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is led by professor Hirotaka Sato, specializing in the research and development of living robots, two Vietnamese, Vo Doan Tat Thang and Bui Xuan Hien, and Singapore undergraduate Yong Wen Melvin.

Thang is a post doctoral researcher under the Fellowship for Research at Biological Machine Laboratory at NTU, while Hien is an undergrad. Tiếp tục đọc “Research group, including Vietnamese, makes world’s smallest ‘living robot’”