Robust, reliable, and quantitative detection of biomarkers at ultra-low concentration is of
great importance in clinical settings. Biosensor, an analytical device used for sensitive and …

Since it was first demonstrated in 1987, magnetic force microscopy (MFM) has become a
truly widespread and commonly used characterization technique that has been applied to a …

Automatic detection and localization of anomalies in nanofibrous materials help to reduce
the cost of the production process and the time of the post-production visual inspection …

Although robotic micromanipulation using microtweezers has been widely explored, the
current manipulation throughput hardly exceeds one operation per second. Increasing the …

The focused ion beam (FIB) is a powerful tool for fabrication, modification, and
characterization of materials down to the nanoscale. Starting with the gallium FIB, which was …

Soft robotics aims at creating systems with improved performance of movement and
adaptability in unknown, challenging, environments and with higher level of safety during …

Soft manipulator is a kind of special manipulator that uses soft material or flexible structure to
perform manipulation task under the specific drive mode inspired by the soft tissue. It is …

Robotic nanomanipulation emerges as a cutting-edge technique pivotal for in situ
nanofabrication, advanced sensing, and comprehensive material characterization. In this …

Robotic micromanipulation is a relatively young field. However, after three decades of
development and evolution, the fundamental physics; techniques for sensing, actuation, and …

Miniature piezoelectric robots exhibit superior performances and have been favored by
many researchers, however, there is an intractable contradiction between nano-resolution …