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Cellophane robotic wings.
« on: July 02, 2006, 05:20:22 pm »
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It's a bird! It's a plane! It's ... a piece of cellophane! Researchers have discovered that cellulose, the ubiquitous building block of the plant kingdom, will flap when exposed to an electric field. Delicate sheets of cellulose with electrodes attached could be used to make microrobots, biodegradable sensors, and paper airplanes that flap like birds


Dragonfly robots?  Punisher will sure use it in surveillance equipment.
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