Pros and cons: Magnetic versus optical microrobots

M Sitti, DS Wiersma - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Mobile microrobotics has emerged as a new robotics field within the last decade to create
untethered tiny robots that can access and operate in unprecedented, dangerous, or hard‐to …

Magnetic methods in robotics

JJ Abbott, E Diller, AJ Petruska - Annual Review of Control …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The goal of this article is to provide a thorough introduction to the state of the art in magnetic
methods for remote-manipulation and wireless-actuation tasks in robotics. The article …

Small‐scale magnetic actuators with optimal six degrees‐of‐freedom

C Xu, Z Yang, GZ Lum - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetic miniature robots (MMRs) are small‐scale, untethered actuators which can be
controlled by magnetic fields. As these actuators can non‐invasively access highly confined …

Multi‐Material 3D Microprinting of Magnetically Deformable Biocompatible Structures

R Pétrot, T Devillers, O Stéphan… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Two‐photon polymerization (2PP) allows precise 3D printing at the micrometer
scale, and by associating it with magnetic materials, the creation of remotely actuatable …

3D microprinting of iron platinum nanoparticle‐based magnetic mobile microrobots

J Giltinan, V Sridhar, U Bozuyuk… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Wireless magnetic microrobots are envisioned to revolutionize minimally invasive medicine.
While many promising medical magnetic microrobots are proposed, the ones using hard …

[HTML][HTML] Robust control strategy of gradient magnetic drive for microrobots based on extended state observer

J Lu, Y Liu, W Huang, K Bi, Y Zhu… - Cyborg and Bionic Systems, 2022 - spj.science.org
Microrobots have great application potential in the biomedical field, to realize the precision
and efficiency of microrobots in vivo is research focus in this field. Microrobots are …

Three-degrees-of-freedom orientation manipulation of small untethered robots with a single anisotropic soft magnet

H Wang, J Cui, K Tian, Y Han - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Magnetic actuation has been well exploited for untethered manipulation and locomotion of
small-scale robots in complex environments such as intracorporeal lumens. Most existing …

Deformable ferrofluid-based millirobot with high motion accuracy and high output force

D Chen, Z Yang, Y Ji, Y Dai, L Feng, F Arai - Applied Physics Letters, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The magnetically actuated robot has valuable potential in biomedicine, bioengineering, and
biophysics for its capability to precisely manipulate particles or biological tissues. However …

Scaling effects of manufacturing processes and actuation sources on control of remotely powered micro actuators

JK Heo, Kausthubharam, M Jung… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Over the past decade, remotely powered micro actuators have gained increased attention
for biomedical and environmental remediation applications, owing to their ability to access …

Mathematical approach for the design configuration of magnetic system with multiple electromagnets

R Chen, D Folio, A Ferreira - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2021 - Elsevier
Magnetic actuation techniques and microrobots have attracted great interest since they have
potential in biomedicine applications. Interventional techniques have emerged as a tool to …