Sarah Bergbreiter
Robotics Professor | Miniature Robots & Future of Emerging Tech
Most recently at TED in 2014.
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Sarah Bergbreiter is a Professor of Robotics at the University of Maryland. Her research focuses on creating novel micro- and millirobotic systems inspired by insects and other small organisms.
Bergbreiter has developed the world's smallest self-powered walking robot, the size of a paperclip. Her TED talk on these remarkable micro-machines has been viewed over 2 million times.
In her keynotes, Bergbreiter offers a glimpse into the potential of emerging technologies to revolutionize fields from manufacturing to healthcare.
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Why I make robots the size of a grain of rice
By studying the movement and bodies of insects such as ants, Sarah Bergbreiter and her team build incredibly robust, super teeny, mechanical versions of creepy crawlies … and then they add rockets. See their jaw-dropping developments in micro-robotics, and hear about three ways we might use these little helpers in the future.
1 talk, all in 2014
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