UK engineers built a tiny liquid-metal pump to move robotic butterfly wings and power wearable devices; it could make robots move without bulky motors |
Saba Firouznia, research associate at the University of Bristol’s Soft Robotics Lab, holds the robotic butterfly powered by a tiny liquid-metal pump. (Image credit: Saba Firouznia) Engineers at the University of Bristol have developed a miniature liquid-metal pump weighing just 0.2 grams that could help soft robots move without bulky pumping systems. With a volume…
