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Re:Tiny Robotic Bee Assembles Itself Like Pop-Up Book by 51Cards on Saturday February 18, 2012 @09:48AM (#3606671)
Disregarding the engineering of the bee itself (which is equally amazing) the fabrication process is brilliant. 2 things come to mind when I watch this. A. I live in the future. B. There are people out there far more intelligent than I. Consider my mind blown.

I wonder if they are working on a method to power the bee for actual flight. Of course it has no control system either at this point. Off to read more. Thanks to the poster for the link.

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Re:Tiny Robotic Bee Assembles Itself Like Pop-Up Book by Lost_BiomedE on Saturday February 18, 2012 @10:48AM (#3606793)
Look up Erik Demaine, winner of a 2003 MacArthur genius award. You may have seen him on the 'in between the folds' origami documentary. I have a feeling that this process has a lot to do with his past work in origami and algorithms.

His website: http://erikdemaine.org

Intro to folding: http://erikdemaine.org/folding/

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Re:Tiny Robotic Bee Assembles Itself Like Pop-Up Book by jamesbritt on Saturday February 18, 2012 @12:14PM (#3607016)
Between the Folds is a great documentary. Amazing stuff, both artistically and in engineering.
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Re:Tiny Robotic Bee Assembles Itself Like Pop-Up Book by swombat on Saturday February 18, 2012 @10:39AM (#3606771)
A. I live in the future.

Indeed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyMdOT8YJgY Enjoy.

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Re:Tiny Robotic Bee Assembles Itself Like Pop-Up Book by orborde on Saturday February 18, 2012 @08:54PM (#3608372)
This is intensely interesting but completely off topic.
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Re:Tiny Robotic Bee Assembles Itself Like Pop-Up Book by kiba on Saturday February 18, 2012 @05:20PM (#3607905)
They probably accomplish stuff faster than you but I don't think it's impossible for you to develop robots like those bees. It just that it required hard work chipping away at those little microproblems.
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Re:Tiny Robotic Bee Assembles Itself Like Pop-Up Book by ramblerman on Sunday February 19, 2012 @08:32AM (#3609297)
every thread needs a motivational speaker
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