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Micromanipulation With Microrobots [PDF]
IEEE Open Journal of Nanotechnology, 2021 Microrobots are promising tools for applications that require micromanipulation, such as single-cell manipulation and surgery, tissue engineering, and desktop manufacturing. This paper briefly reviews common microrobot actuation mechanisms, then reviews current progress in several capabilities that are desirable for micromanipulation, with an emphasis ...
M Arifur Rahman, Aaron T. Ohta
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Development of Wireless Endoscope with Symmetrical Motion Characteristics
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2014 In the biomedical field, a wireless microrobot in a pipe which can move smoothly in water or other aqueous mediums has been urgently demanded. In this paper, several methods of designing a novel microrobot with symmetrical motion characteristics have ...
Jian Guo +3 more
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Multimodal Locomotion and Cargo Transportation of Magnetically Actuated Quadruped Soft Microrobots
Cyborg and Bionic Systems, 2022 Untethered microrobots have attracted extensive attention due to their potential for biomedical applications and micromanipulation at the small scale. Soft microrobots are of great research importance because of their highly deformable ability to achieve
Chenyang Huang +3 more
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Automatic path tracking and target manipulation of a magnetic microrobot
, 2016 Recently, wireless controlled microrobots have been studied because of their great development prospects in the biomedical field. Electromagnetic microrobots have the advantages of control agility and good precision, and thus, have received much ...
Tung, Steve +3 more
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Three-Dimensional Position Measurement of a Microrobot [PDF]
, 2003 Many microrobots with various types of sensors and actuators have been developed. We propose three-dimensional position measurement of a microrobot using position sensitive detectors (PSDs), since its dimension is suitable for the microrobot.
川根, 祐輔 +3 more
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On-Chip Enucleation of Bovine Oocytes using Microrobot-Assisted Flow-Speed Control
Micromachines, 2013 In this study, we developed a microfluidic chip with a magnetically driven microrobot for oocyte enucleation. A microfluidic system was specially designed for enucleation, and the microrobot actively controls the local flow-speed distribution in the ...
Akihiko Ichikawa +3 more
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Annual Review of Biomedical EngineeringScientists around the world have long aimed to produce miniature robots that can be controlled inside the human body to aid doctors in identifying and treating diseases. Such microrobots hold the potential to access hard-to-reach areas of the body through the natural lumina.
Iacovacci, Veronica +3 more
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, 2023 Cancer is one of the diseases with high mortality worldwide. Various methods for cancer treatment are being developed, and among them, magnetically driven microrobots capable of minimally invasive surgery and accurate targeting are in the spotlight ...
Sukho Park (770669) +1 more
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Neural Networks Integrated Circuit for Biomimetics MEMS Microrobot
Robotics, 2014 In this paper, we will propose the neural networks integrated circuit (NNIC) which is the driving waveform generator of the 4.0, 2.7, 2.5 mm, width, length, height in size biomimetics microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) microrobot.
Ken Saito +8 more
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Azobenzene photoswitches translate molecular‐scale E/Z photoisomerization into macroscopic material responses and device‐level photonic functions. This Review highlights how azobenzene research has evolved from molecular photochemistry to photoalignment, mass migration, photomechanics, and heat release, ultimately enabling holography, reconfigurable ...
Heeju Son +20 more
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