Design, manufacturing and applications of small-scale magnetic soft robots

M Eshaghi, M Ghasemi, K Khorshidi - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2021 - Elsevier
During past few years, applications of untethered magnetically controlled soft robots in the
biomedical operations have been extensively reported, which is attributed to the efficient …

Recent advances in bioinspired walking microbots: Design, manufacturing, and challenges

G Mora-Aquino, ÁL Rodríguez-Morales… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2024 - Elsevier
Microbots can revolutionize various fields of science and technology with applications that
require access to confined environments. These microbots could allow engine inspections …

Development of a small-sized quadruped robotic rat capable of multimodal motions

Q Shi, J Gao, S Wang, X Quan, G Jia… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Legged robots are very promising for use in real-world applications, but their operation in
narrow spaces is still challenging. One solution for enhancing their environmental …

Magnetorheological Fluid‐Based Flow Control for Soft Robots

K McDonald, A Rendos, S Woodman… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Fluidic soft robots bring a high degree of dexterity and adaptability to robotics problems
requiring safe interactions with complex structures. While they are low cost and easy to …

A 3.4-millimeter flea-sized robot with powerful jum** and fast crawling locomotion

R Yun, Z Liu, J Leng, J Huang, Y Cui… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fleas in nature generally have potent muscles for jum** and crawling abilities to
overcome obstacles in complex environments, while it is challenging for flea-sized robots to …

A 5 mg micro-bristle-bot fabricated by two-photon lithography

DG Kim, Z Hao, J Ueda, A Ansari - Journal of Micromechanics …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
A bristle-bot or vibrobot is a multi-legged robot made of bristles and an oscillating actuator
that generates vibrations. This work presents the first demonstration of a micro-bristle-bot …

A 5-mm untethered crawling robot via self-excited electrostatic vibration

Y Zhu, M Qi, Z Liu, J Huang, D Huang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The grand challenge toward the miniaturization of untethered robots is the lack of a proper
actuation system that can effectively transform the limited onboard energy into an untethered …

Planar MEMS supercapacitor using carbon nanotube forests

YQ Jiang, Q Zhou, L Lin - 2009 IEEE 22nd International …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Planar micro supercapacitors utilizing vertically aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) forests with
the design of interdigital electrodes have been demonstrated. Conductive substrates using …

Millimobile: An autonomous battery-free wireless microrobot

K Johnson, Z Englhardt, V Arroyos, D Yin… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We present MilliMobile: a first of its kind battery-free autonomous robot capable of operating
on harvested solar and RF power. We challenge the conventional assumption that motion …

An efficient closed-loop adaptive controller for a small-sized quadruped robotic rat

X Quan, R Du, R Wang, Z Bing, Q Shi - Cyborg and Bionic Systems, 2024 - spj.science.org
Large quadruped robots have shown potential for a wide range of everyday tasks due to
their superior terrain adaptation. However, small-scale quadruped robots have limited …