Meet the humans ’s modest   – and cutest   – new member of the robot family line .

The milliDelta is also the libertine and most precise robot of its kind and   bluster high speed and preciseness . It moves so chop-chop – up to 75 motions a second – that on photographic camera it ’s just a blur .

What sets the milliDelta aside is the engineering behind it . Industrial automaton have motor located in the joints , but delta golem are controlled by motors in a fundamental base station . Their arm are shaped like a triangle , are exceedingly lightweight , and do n’t demand much force .

Reported inScience Robotics , the picayune guy was explicate by Robert Wood ’s squad at Harvard ’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences .

The squad was inspired by origami and pop - up Book after it developed amicro - fabrication approachin 2011 . Pop - up MEMS , as they ’re now know , are fundamentally robots made from flat sheets of composite materials that use dynamical engineering science to move around , walk , or evenfly by .

“ The physics of scaling tell us that bringing down the size of Delta golem would increase their speed and speedup , and pop - up mem manufacturing with its power to use any material or combination of material seemed an ideal way to snipe this job , ” tell Wood in astatement .

Delta robots were invent way back in the 1980s and were used for “ pick and topographic point ” work which , just like it sounds , involved picking things off of a conveyer rap and putting them in a place .

Like its predecessors , the milliDelta can also do clean and place tasks but on a much small scurf . The milliDelta is about the size of it of apenny , measure out just 15 millimeters by 15 millimeters , build it ideal for putting together computer boards .

Because of its high stop number , force , and micrometer precision , researchers say they can also assist in delicate medical operations , like a tremor - counteracting end - effector for heart operation . It could be placed on the closing of a surgical tool and practice its motion to scratch out the born wobble of a surgeon ’s hand .

The researchers think the robots could be contribute to existing robotic machine or be develop as standalone devices .

Aw , is n’t it cunning ?