All-terrain microrobot flips through a live colon
A rectangular robot as tiny as a few human hairs can travel throughout a colon by doing back flips, Purdue University engineers have demonstrated in live animal models.
Oct 15, 2020
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An army of microrobots can wipe out dental plaque
visit to the dentist typically involves time-consuming and sometimes unpleasant scraping with mechanical tools to remove plaque from teeth. What if, instead, a dentist could deploy a small army of tiny robots to precisely ...
Apr 25, 2019
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Researchers create magnetic microrobots that work together to assemble objects in 3D environments
For the first time ever, researchers at the Surgical Robotics Laboratory of the University of Twente successfully made two microrobots work together to pick up, move and assemble passive objects in 3D environments. This achievement ...
Oct 24, 2023
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Microrobots to change the way we work with cellular material
In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from University of Toronto have demonstrated a novel and non-invasive way to manipulate cells through microrobotics.
Jul 8, 2019
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Self-driving microrobots
Most synthetic materials, including those in battery electrodes, polymer membranes, and catalysts, degrade over time because they don't have internal repair mechanisms. If you could distribute autonomous microrobots within ...
Dec 10, 2019
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Exploring the interactions between microswimmer medical robots and the human immune system
Over the past few years, robotics researchers have designed tiny and untethered swimming robots, also known as microswimmers, with increasingly advanced sensing and locomotion capabilities. These microrobots could prove very ...
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Tiny swimming robots can restructure materials on a microscopic level
Controlling microscopic processes is inherently challenging. The everyday tools we use to manipulate matter on the macroscale can't simply be shrunk down to the size of cell, and even if they could, the physical forces they ...
Dec 1, 2022
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3D-printing microrobots with multiple component modules inside a microfluidic chip
Scientists from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Osaka University introduced a method for manufacturing complex microrobots driven by chemical energy using in situ integration. By 3D-printing and assembling the ...
Nov 17, 2022
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Microrobots that can form into multiple types of swarming shapes
A team of researchers from the Harbin Institute of Technology in China and Michigan State University in the U.S. has developed a way to control swarming microrobots that are able to form into multiple types of shapes. In ...
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Swarming microrobots self-organize into diverse patterns
A research collaboration between Cornell and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems has found an efficient way to expand the collective behavior of swarming microrobots: Mixing different sizes of the micron-scale ...
Jun 5, 2023
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