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From: jdcook@netcom.com (John David Cook)
Subject: Re: Chip robots...why havn't
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Anthony Tekatch (anthony.tekatch@canrem.com) wrote:
: FREEMAN>I have a question here that I am confused about. I have seen the
: FREEMAN>advances in chip technology and I know that you can have a chip with a
: FREEMAN>pretty good CPU some memory and driver circuits REALLY small. Why
: FREEMAN>doesn't someone make one that has instead of pins it has a button
: FREEMAN>batery holder on the back and the pins are really nitinol wire changed
: FREEMAN>to bend with electricity. WALA a walking robot the size of a good sized
: FREEMAN>cock roach. If you wanted you could even build a CCD chip into it as
: FREEMAN>well and bingo You got a robot with advanced vision the size of a
: FREEMAN>credit card or smaller.

: Doesn't nitinol wire take an extremely large amount of current (more than a
: button battery can give out for any length of time)??

I dont think so, after seeing a demo of the stuff I think it depends more 
on the thickness of the wire.  ie: thinner wire needs less current.  If 
you build just a chip robot and the button battery is the heaviest thing 
on board you'd only need very thin nitinol wires.
-John C (jdcook@netcom.com)


: Anthony (anthony.tekatch@canrem.com)
: ---
:  * MR/2 2.05 #187 * 3 things occur when you age.. 1) memory goes 2) uh.. um..
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