MOFBOTS: Metal–Organic‐Framework‐Based Biomedical Microrobots

Biomedical applications of polypyrrole microactuators: from single-cell clinic to microrobots

Microtools that will be useful for the positioning and investigation of biological microstructures must operate under biologically relevant environments, such as cell culture media or blood plasma. They must also be comparatively strong, and preferably allow a muscle like mode of movement. This is given by a novel family of actuators based on conjugated polymers (like polypyrrole, PPy). By mini...

How Should Microrobots Swim?

Microrobots have the potential to dramatically change many aspects of medicine by navigating through bodily fluids to perform targeted The International Journal of Robotics Research Vol. 28, No. 11–12, November/December 2009, pp. 1434–1447 DOI: 10.1177/0278364909341658 c The Author(s), 2009. Reprints and permissions: http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav Figures 1, 3, 5–10 appear in ...

Making Microrobots Move

Our group has recently demonstrated three distinct types of microrobots of progressively smaller size that are wirelessly powered and controlled by magnetic fields. For larger scale microrobots, from 1mm to 500 μm, we microassemble three dimensional devices that precisely respond to torques and forces generated by magnetic fields and field gradients. In the 500 μm to 200 μm range, we have devel...

Bacteria - Inspired Microrobots 7

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Actuators for autonomous microrobots