Microbots

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MICROBOTS
that is how they are called, based on the rhythm of future.
The project of Microbots does not consist of steady musicians or producers. Due to cooperation with artists of different music genres and various video-artists often remarkable live-performances are initiated. The close connection to the Animee-and Demoscene – which is the underground style of the future – finally forms the frame of creativity and the accepting of taking risks to favour non-commercial methods. With their long international experience as Club-DJs and their different personal demands and passions, they bring their characters with help of word, vision and sound in new line.
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MICROBOTS
...werden sie genannt, basierend auf dem Rhythmus der Zukunft.Die Klangkompositionen der Microbots veranlassen das Publikum zu einem selten gewordenen Phänomen – Aufmerksamkeit. Audio-Visuelle Kommunikation nennt man das in neudeutsch und es kommt an. Mehr noch, es wirft Fragen auf, denn die Inhalte gehen bei genauer Betrachtung im Zusammenspiel mit der elektronischen Musik über das ‚Normalmaß’ der aktuellen Popkultur hinaus. Fragt man nach, erfährt man warum das so ist: „Wir kaufen nix!“
Die Microbots bilden keinen festen Musiker- oder Produzentenstamm. Durch die Zusammenarbeit mit Künstlern der unterschiedlichsten Musikgenres und verschiedenen Video-Artists, werden oft außergew&uoml;hnliche Live-Performances initiiert. Diese werden auch als DJ-Sets in verschiedenen Clubs performed.
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MICROBOTS [at] the present
Microbotics (or microrobotics) is the field of miniature robotics, in particular mobile robots with characteristic dimensions less than 1 mm. The term can also be used for robots capable of handling micrometer size components.
While the 'micro' prefix has been used subjectively to mean small, standardizing on length scales avoids confusion. Thus a nanorobot would have characteristic dimensions at or below 1 micrometer, or manipulate components on the 1 to 1000 nm size range. A microrobot would have characteristic dimensions less than 1 millimeter, a millirobot would have dimensions less than a cm, a minirobot would have dimensions less than 10 cm, and a small robot would have dimensions less than 100 cm.
The earliest research and conceptual design of such small robots was conducted in the early 1970s in (then) classified research for U.S. intelligence agencies. Applications envisioned at that time included prisoner of war rescue assistance and electronic intercept missions. The underlying miniaturization support technologies were not fully developed at that time, so that immediate progress in prototype development was not immediately forthcoming from this early set of calculations and concept design. (ESL Inc., 1970)
The concept of building very small robots, and benefiting from recent advances in Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) was publicly introduced in the seminal paper: Anita M. Flynn, “Gnat Robots (and How They Will Change Robotics)" Proceedings of the IEEE Micro Robots and Teleoperators Workshop, Hyannis, MA, November 1987.
Due to their small size, microbots are potentially very cheap, and could be used in large numbers to explore environments which are too small or too dangerous for people or larger robots. It is expected that microbots will be useful in applications such as looking for survivors in collapsed buildings after an earthquake, or crawling through the digestive tract. What microbots lack in brawn or computational power, they can make up for by using large numbers, as in swarms of microbots.
Microbots were born thanks to the appearance of the microcontroller in the last decade of the 20th century, and the appearance of miniature mechanical systems on silicon (MEMS), although many microbots do not use silicon for mechanical components other than sensors.
One of the major challenges in developing a microrobot is to achieve motion using a very limited power supply. The microrobots can use a small lightweight battery source like a coin cell or can scavenge power from the surrounding in the form of vibration or light energy.
Nowadays, owing chiefly to wireless connections, like Wi-Fi (i.e. in domestic networks) the microbot's communication capacity has risen, so it can coordinate with other microbots to carry out more complex tasks.
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