3D-printed microrobots from design to translation

SR Dabbagh, MR Sarabi, MT Birtek, S Seyfi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Microrobots have attracted the attention of scientists owing to their unique features to
accomplish tasks in hard-to-reach sites in the human body. Microrobots can be precisely …

4D printing: Enabling technology for microrobotics applications

G Adam, A Benouhiba, K Rabenorosoa… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This review demonstrates that 4D printing constitutes a key technology to enable significant
advances in microrobotics. Unlike traditional microfabrication techniques, 4D printing …

Microrobots for biomedicine: unsolved challenges and opportunities for translation

JG Lee, RR Raj, NB Day, CW Shields IV - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Microrobots are being explored for biomedical applications, such as drug delivery, biological
cargo transport, and minimally invasive surgery. However, current efforts largely focus on …

3D printing microactuators for soft microrobots

M Tyagi, GM Spinks, EWH Jager - Soft robotics, 2021 - liebertpub.com
Current additive manufacturing, including three-dimensional (3D) and so-called four-
dimensional printing, of soft robotic devices is limited to millimeter sizes. In this study, we …

3D printing of functional microrobots

J Li, M Pumera - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
3D printing (also called “additive manufacturing” or “rapid prototyping”) is able to translate
computer-aided and designed virtual 3D models into 3D tangible constructs/objects through …

4D printing: Technological developments in robotics applications

MY Khalid, ZU Arif, W Ahmed, R Umer… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2022 - Elsevier
The idea of four-dimensional (4D) printing is the formation of intricate stimuli-responsive 3D
architectures that transform into different forms and shapes upon exposure to environmental …

4D printing soft robotics for biomedical applications

SY Hann, H Cui, M Nowicki, LG Zhang - Additive Manufacturing, 2020 - Elsevier
Soft robotics has grown rapidly as an attractive manufacturing technique at
micro/nanoscales, especially in the field of biomedical engineering, due to its mobility and …

3D-printed multi-stimuli-responsive mobile micromachines

YW Lee, H Ceylan, IC Yasa, U Kilic… - ACS applied materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Magnetically actuated and controlled mobile micromachines have the potential to be a key
enabler for various wireless lab-on-a-chip manipulations and minimally invasive targeted …

Indirect 3D and 4D printing of soft robotic microstructures

C De Marco, CCJ Alcântara, S Kim… - Advanced Materials …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The development of 3D soft‐robotic components is currently hindered by material limitations
associated with conventional 3D printing techniques. To overcome this challenge, an …

Microscale and nanoscale robotics systems [grand challenges of robotics]

M Sitti - IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Depending on their overall size, sensing and actuation precision, part or tool size, and task
space, robotic systems can be classified as microrobotics or nanorobotics, respectively …