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3D Printing of Soft Robotic Systems: Advances in Fabrication Strategies and Future Trends

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Collectively, this review systematically examines 3D‐printed soft robotics, encompassing material selections, function integration, and manufacturing methodologies. Meanwhile, fabrication strategies are analyzed in order of increasing complexity, highlighting persistent challenges with proposed solutions.
Changjiang Liu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

RectMag3D: A Magnetic Actuation System for Steering Milli/Microrobots Based on Rectangular Electromagnetic Coils

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2020
Milli/microrobots benefit from their small size and can perform minimally invasive surgery in a limited tissue space and eliminate the need for fine operations such as thrombus, which not only reduces trauma to patients but also shortens the recovery ...
Sishen Yuan, Yue Wan, Shuang Song
doaj   +1 more source

Toward Wireless Implantable Robotic Systems Driven by Magnetic Field for Personalized Therapy

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Robotic materials are playing an increasingly vital role in enabling sensing and actuation at small scales. This perspective highlights recent advances in magnetic materials and magnetically actuated devices for wireless sensing, actuation, and energy harvesting toward implantable robotic systems for closed‐loop therapy.
Yusheng Wang, Ruijian Ge, Xiaoguang Dong
wiley   +1 more source

Study on Structural Design and Motion Characteristics of Magnetic Helical Soft Microrobots with Drug-Carrying Function

open access: yesMicromachines
Magnetic soft microrobots have a wide range of applications in targeted drug therapy, cell manipulation, and other aspects. Currently, the research on magnetic soft microrobots is still in the exploratory stage, and most of the research focuses on a ...
Qian Gao   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Magnetic Field Driven Microrobot Based on Hydrogels

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Hydrogel‐based magnetic microrobots synergize remote magnetic control with the biocompatibility of flexible hydrogels, emerging as promising tools for minimally invasive biomedicine. This enables remotely controllable, untethered navigation within complex biological microenvironments.
Juncai Song, Yubing Guo
wiley   +1 more source

Manipulating Microrobots Using Balanced Magnetic and Buoyancy Forces

open access: yesMicromachines, 2018
We present a novel method for the three-dimensional (3D) control of microrobots within a microfluidic chip. The microrobot body contains a hollow space, producing buoyancy that allows it to float in a microfluidic environment.
Lin Feng   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Multimodal Locomotion in Insect‐Inspired Microrobots: A Review of Strategies for Aerial, Surface, Aquatic, and Interfacial Motion

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review identifies key design considerations for insect‐inspired microrobots capable of multimodal locomotion. To draw inspiration, biological and robotic strategies for moving in air, on water surfaces, and underwater are examined, along with approaches for crossing the air–water interface.
Mija Jovchevska   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Mobile Self-reconfigurable Microrobot with Power and Communication Relays

open access: yesInternational Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2011
A modular mobile self-reconfigurable microrobot is developed to enlarge the whole surveillance range of mobile microrobot. The microrobot is designed as differential driven vehicle equipped with a passive universal connector with autonomic engagement ...
Dawei Zhang   +3 more
doaj  

Complex dynamics of a magnetic microrobot driven by single deformation soft tail in random environment

open access: yesTheoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters
This study focuses on exploring the complex dynamical behaviors of a magnetic microrobot in a random environment. The purpose is to reveal the mechanism of influence of random disturbance on microrobot dynamics.
Xinpeng Shi, Yongge Li, Yong Xu, Qi Liu
doaj   +1 more source

Towards Functional Mobile Microrobotic Systems

open access: yesRobotics, 2019
This paper presents our work over the last decade in developing functional microrobotic systems, which include wireless actuation of microrobots to traverse complex surfaces, addition of sensing capabilities, and independent actuation of swarms of ...
Georges Adam   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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