Design and build of small-scale magnetic soft-bodied robots with multimodal locomotion

Z Ren, M Sitti - Nature protocols, 2024 - nature.com
Small-scale magnetic soft-bodied robots can be designed to operate based on different
locomotion modes to navigate and function inside unstructured, confined and varying …

Multimodal locomotion and cargo transportation of magnetically actuated quadruped soft microrobots

C Huang, Z Lai, X Wu, T Xu - Cyborg and Bionic Systems, 2022 - spj.science.org
Untethered microrobots have attracted extensive attention due to their potential for
biomedical applications and micromanipulation at the small scale. Soft microrobots are of …

Magnetic arthropod millirobots fabricated by 3D‐printed hydrogels

B Sun, R Jia, H Yang, X Chen, K Tan… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetically driven small‐scale soft robots are promising for applications in biomedicine,
due to their fast, programmable deformation, and remote, untethered actuation to …

Bio-inspired terrestrial motion of magnetic soft millirobots

VK Venkiteswaran, LFP Samaniego… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Magnetic soft robots have the combined advantages of contactless actuation, requiring no
on-board power source, and having flexible bodies that can adapt to unstructured …

Double-modal locomotion of a hydrogel ultra-soft magnetic miniature robot with switchable forms

S Zhong, Z Xin, Y Hou, Y Li, HW Huang… - Cyborg and Bionic …, 2024 - spj.science.org
Flexible miniature robots are expected to enter difficult-to-reach areas in vivo to carry out
targeted operations, attracting widespread attention. However, it is challenging for the …

On-demand orbital maneuver of multiple soft robots via hierarchical magnetomotility

S Won, S Kim, JE Park, J Jeon, JJ Wie - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Magnetic soft robots facilitate the battery-free remote control of soft robots. However, parallel
control of multiple magnetic robots is challenging due to interference between robots and …

Small-scale soft-bodied robot with multimodal locomotion

W Hu, GZ Lum, M Mastrangeli, M Sitti - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Untethered small-scale (from several millimetres down to a few micrometres in all
dimensions) robots that can non-invasively access confined, enclosed spaces may enable …

A bioinspired multilegged soft millirobot that functions in both dry and wet conditions

H Lu, M Zhang, Y Yang, Q Huang, T Fukuda… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Developing untethered millirobots that can adapt to harsh environments with high
locomotion efficiency is of interest for emerging applications in various industrial and …

Magnetic miniature actuators with six‐degrees‐of‐freedom multimodal soft‐bodied locomotion

C Xu, Z Yang, SWK Tan, J Li… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetic miniature robots (MMRs) are mobile actuators that can exploit their size to
noninvasively access highly confined, enclosed spaces. By leveraging on such unique …

Reconfigurable magnetic slime robot: deformation, adaptability, and multifunction

M Sun, C Tian, L Mao, X Meng, X Shen… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetic miniature soft‐bodied robots allow non‐invasive access to restricted spaces and
provide ideal solutions for minimally invasive surgery, micromanipulation, and targeted drug …