Object Details
- Description
- Group of ten tiny Kilobots, each one a squat cylindrical body composed of a circular green circuit board supporting vibration motors, an LED, a Lithium-Ion battery, a transmitter/receiver, a light sensor, all topped by a blue-toned metal charging tab with up-curved projection; the whole form mounted on three slender rigid legs.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Radhika Nagpal, American, born 1971
- Mike Rubenstein, American, born 1980
- Date
- Designed 2012
- Credit Line
- Gift of Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University
- Medium
- ferrous metal, brass, plastic, silicone, electronic components, LED
- Dimensions
- H x diam.: 3 × 3 cm (1 3/16 × 1 3/16 in.)
- Type
- models and prototypes
- Exhibitions
- Object Name
- robots (10)
- Type
- robots (10)
