How can a horde of active robots be automatically brought to a standstill? By arresting their dynamics in a self-sustained way. This phenomenon was discovered by physicists at Heinrich Heine ...

How can a horde of active robots be automatically brought to a standstill? By arresting their dynamics in a self-sustained way. This phenomenon was discovered by physicists at Heinrich Heine ...

Robots acting as macroscale analogs of active nanoparticles stop moving through friction alone, revealing a self-sustained ...

Physicists have wrestled with friction for centuries. Leonardo da Vinci sketched its rules in 1493, and two hundred years later Charles-Augustin de Coulomb ...

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