Behrad Khamesee's new design converts the energy when shovelling snow, into energy that can charge a cell phone. Full article in Waterloo Stories!
The Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy website has all the details on Mir Behrad Khamesee and Pratik Patel's innovate gizmo that can convert vibrational energy into useful electricity!
At the University of Waterloo in Ontario, microroboticist Behrad Khamesee, PEng has developed a flying robot about the size of a pencil eraser.
That is exactly what Behrad Khamesee and his colleagues at the University of Waterloo, in Ontario, have managed. They have built a micro-robot that levitates, rather like a Dalek in “Dr Who”. And instead of having an old sink-plunger doubling as its arm, their robot has a useful set of grippers.
A research team, led by Professor Mir Behrad Khamesee, manipulates magnetic fields to levitate and move around three axes a robot weighing about three-hundredths of an ounce.
- cnet
Dutch pressetext online magazine also had a feature on the tiny robot fliers!