Multicellular model organisms, such as Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly), are frequently
used in a myriad of biological research studies due to their biological significance and …

Biological cell injection is laborious work that requires lengthy training and suffers from a low
success rate. In this paper, a robotic cell-injection system for automatic injection of batch …

Invertebrate animals have been used as medicinals for 4,000 years and have served as
models for research and teaching since the late 1800s. Interest in invertebrate models has …

The physiological functions of human red blood cells (RBCs) play a crucial role to human
health and are greatly influenced by their mechanical properties. Any alteration of the cell …

Cell injection plays an important role in genetics, transgenics, molecular biology, drug
discovery, reproductive study, and other biomedical fields. Compared with manual cell …

Compact sensing methods are desirable for ionic polymer–metal composite (IPMC)
actuators in microrobotic and biomedical applications. In this paper a novel sensing scheme …

Microinjection is an effective technique to introduce foreign materials into a biological cell.
Although some semi-automatic and fully-automatic microinjection systems have been …

Position and/or force feedback is critical in ensuring precise and safe operation of ionic
polymer–metal composite (IPMC) actuators in bio/micromanipulation. In this paper the …

As an effective method to deliver external materials into biological cells, microinjection has
been widely applied in the biomedical field. However, the knowledge of cell mechanical …

High performance force sensors often encounter the conflicting requirements of fine
sensitivity and wide bandwidth. While there is an intrinsic tradeoff between these two metrics …