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Wireless Capsule Device for Targeted and Safe Tissue Biopsy with Integrated Sensing

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Technologies, Volume 10, Issue 23, December 3, 2025.
This work presents a capsule device featuring a novel magnetically controlled biopsy mechanism for enhanced safety. The biopsy unit integrates a foldable linkage with dual magnets, creating a magnetic attraction–based safeguard, preventing unintended activation during locomotion. A flexible sensor provides real‐time penetration displacement sensing for
Kiyoung Kim   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Simulation on Superelastic Alloy Microgripper with Embedded UM Actuators

open access: yes, 2010
This paper presents a superelastic alloy (NiTi) microgripper with embedded ultrasonic motor (UM) actuators for expanding the workspace of a microrobot and manipulating it safely in lower voltage. The microgripper, equipped with flexible hinges fabricated
Su G(苏刚), Wang S(王帅)
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Low voltage microgripper for single cell manipulation

open access: yes, 2009
In this work, we present the characterisation of an electrothermally actuated microgripper that operates in both dry and liquid media, and shows improved performance versus existing devices. The microgripper, fabricated in a combination of polymeric (SU8)
Wood, D.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Autonomous Sorting of Beads in a 3D Environment Using Levitating Magnetic Microrobots

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 12, December 2025.
An untethered, magnetically actuated microrobot autonomously collects, weighs, classifies, and sorts passive particles in 3D environments. The system integrates motion control, trajectory planning, and action scheduling to perform fully automated operations.
Franco N. Piñan Basualdo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design and Development of Compliant Microgripper-Based Assembly Station

open access: yes, 2016
This paper presents the design and development of a flexure-based compliant microgripper to handle and manipulate objects of various sizes ranging from 500–1000 μm.
Khushboo Shrivastava, Suhas S. Joshi
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Single Mask and Large Amplification Electrothermal Microgripper

open access: yesShock and Vibration
The paper presents a new electrothermal microgripper with a large amplification ratio and a single photo mask. This microgripper is designed with the 40-μm-stroke, which is 3.33 times larger than displacement of the driving V-shaped actuator.
Phuc Hong-Pham   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bifurcation characteristics and safe basin of MSMA microgripper subjected to stochastic excitation

open access: yesAIP Advances, 2015
A kind of magnetic shape memory alloy (MSMA) microgripper is proposed in this paper, and its nonlinear dynamic characteristics are studied when the stochastic perturbation is considered.
Z. W. Zhu, X. M. Li, J. Xu
doaj   +1 more source

Polymer Microgripper with Autofocusing and Visual Tracking Operations to Grip Particle Moving in Liquid

open access: yesActuators, 2018
A visual-servo automatic micromanipulating system was developed and tested for gripping the moving microparticle suspended in liquid well. An innovative design of microgripper integrated with flexible arms was utilized to constrain particles in a moving ...
Ren-Jung Chang, Yu-Cheng Chien
doaj   +1 more source

Development of Flexible Microgripper.

open access: yesJournal of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering, 1995
新しい駆動方式を採用したマイクログリッパ (FMG) について解説した.本稿によりFMGの駆動特性, 応用の可能性についてご理解頂けたら幸いである.また今後は, FMGの高機能化や, 新たな操作要素の研究開発を進める予定である.
openaire   +2 more sources

Position control of a SMA microgripper

open access: yes, 2001
A SMA microgripper system with an integrated optical position sensor is presented. The microgripper consists of two actuation units and an optical slit fabricated from one piece of SMA material with overall dimensions of 2 x 5.8 x 0.23 mm3.
E. Just, M. Kohl, S. Miyazaki
core   +1 more source

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