Miniaturized mobile microrobots have opened new applications from biomedical to environmental fields. Among various types of microrobots, recent progress on highly performing planar type could offer a good compromise between the manufacturability and functionality promising for practical applications. The remaining challenges are guarantee their sustainable operations in unclean wet environment...

Diverse areas such as the Internet of Things (IoT), aerospace and industrial electronics increasingly require non-volatile memory to work under high-temperature, radiation-hard conditions, with zero standby power. Nanoelectromechanical (NEM) relays uniquely have potential at 300 °C absorb high levels radiation, leakage current across entire operational range. While NEM that utilise stiction for...