Micro-and nanorobots can perform a number of tasks at small scales, such as minimally
invasive diagnostics, targeted drug delivery, and localized surgery. During the past decade …

As we move towards the miniaturization of devices to perform tasks at the nano and
microscale, it has become increasingly important to develop new methods for actuation …

Shape-programmable matter is a class of active materials whose geometry can be
controlled to potentially achieve mechanical functionalities beyond those of traditional …

Mobile sub‐millimeter micro‐robots have demonstrated untethered motion and transport of
cargo in remote, confined or enclosed environments. However, limited by simple design and …

Complex functional materials with three-dimensional micro-or nano-scale dynamic
compositional features are prevalent in nature. However, the generation of three …

Biological soft robots have attracted extensive attention and research because of their
superiority in executing designed biomedical missions compared with conventional robots …

A major challenge for untethered microscale mobile robotics is the control of many agents in
the same workspace for distributed operation. In this work, we present a new method to …

Within only a few decades from its initial introduction, the field of surgical robotics has
evolved into a dynamic and rapidly growing research area with increasing clinical uptake …

Existing remotely actuated magnetic microrobots exhibit a maximum of only five-degree-of-
freedom (DOF) actuation, as creation of a driving torque about the microrobot magnetization …

The field of microrobotics has seen tremendous advances in recent years. The principles
governing the design of such submillimeter scale robots rely on an understanding of …