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Zac Wheeler posted to the DPRG mailing list, "I've finished (sort of) building my first sumo bot, which I believe is also the first pico sumo robot, as well as the current smallest robot in the world. I'm defining robot here as self-powered, autonomous, with active sensing of its environment and the ability to control its movement. It has a battery, intelligent control, infrared sensors, and two motors." This brought to mind the very first story we posted here at robots.net back in 2001, about Sandia's tiny robot. I mentioned this to Zak and he said, "The Sandia bot is the one that inspired me to take this on ... their bot is a quarter of a cubic inch - about twice the volume of mine. Check it out on the nickel vs. mine on the dime."
Looks like a contender for the Darwin awards, since it keeps throwing itself off the edge of the table. Or maybe its intelligence shrunk along with its size.
Really, though, it looks like quite an accomplishment to have a little guy like that which can bump against walls! Very cool!
Can we get more details on how it was made? It should be named the Lemming.
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