Explore the future of robotics with the beetle-inspired robot designed for precision tasks in confined spaces and hazardous ...

Conventional batteries for micro drones are too large and heavy. A solid-state battery, cell switching technology and ...

Engineers have designed a tiny, low-weight and cordless robot that can act independently and with ultra-high precision in all ...

In the search for silicon-compatible materials, aluminum scandium nitride (AlScN), which had already been flagged as an excellent piezoelectric—referring to a material's ability to generate ...

This robot, introduced in a paper published in the Journal of Bionic Engineering, is based on piezoelectric materials, a class of materials that generate an electric charge when subjected to ...

This paper aims to develop a high-performance MEMS hydrophone by designing and analyzing the chip, pre-amplifier circuit, and package structure based on SNR. The results indicate that using AlN ...

An aspect of the KAIST design is that it does not interrupt power extraction from the piezoelectric generator to measure open-circuit voltage. Instead the designers track into the optimum operating ...

An innovative circuit design could enable miniature devices ... Slice and dice To move around, most microrobots use piezoelectric microactuators, which translate an electrical signal to a ...