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Active Solids Sync Up

Jack Binysh
Jack Binysh
,
Anton Souslov
DOI
Abstract
An active solid composed of confined robots is reported. Through elastic interactions, the robots sync up to create novel states of coherent motion.
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Nature Physics
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Last updated on Jan 1, 2022
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