IEEE Spectrum
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Tiny internal-combustion engine is essentially a tiny, very soft internal engine.
Methane vapor and oxygen are injected into a soft combustion chamber, where an itty-bitty li’l spark ignites the mixture.
In half a millisecond, the top of the chamber balloons upward like a piston, generating forces of 9.5 newtons.
The robot is 29 millimeters long and weighs just 1.6 grams , but it can jump a staggering 59 centimeters straight up and walk while carrying 22 times its own weight.
A large robot with muscles powered by thousands of tiny explosions could be used in large robots.
The researchers say they want to explore the possibility of putting thousands of small and powerful actuators in bundles over a rigid endoskeleton to allow for dexterous and fast land-based hybrid robots.
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