Using the repair techniques developed by MIT researchers, this microrobot can still maintain flight-level performance even after the artificial muscles that power its wings were jabbed by 10 needles and 20 percent of one wing tip was cut off.
Study co-authors (from left to right) Ajinkya Pandit, Yi Wei, and Shashank Muddu stand with equipment used to develop a technique offering a low-cost, noninvasive particle size probe.
Credits:Photo courtesy of Takeda Pharmaceuticals.