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

Soft materials that respond to wireless external stimuli are referred to as “smart” materials
due to their promising potential in real‐world actuation and sensing applications in robotics …

Small-scale magnetic robots are remotely actuated and controlled by an externally applied
magnetic field. These robots have a characteristic size ranging from several millimetres …

Intracellular drug delivery is at the heart of many diagnosis procedures and a key step in
gene therapy. Research has been conducted to bypass cell barriers for controlled …

The growing interest in soft robotics has resulted in an increased demand for accurate and
reliable material modelling. As soft robots experience high deformations, highly nonlinear …

Mechanical loading on bone tissue is an important physiological stimulus that plays a key
role in bone growth, fracture repair, and treatment of bone diseases. Osteocytes (bone cells …

The utilization of sound waves for the precise arrangement of particles and cells represents
a significant advancement in the field of micromanipulation. Acoustic tweezers, based on …

Osteocytes are the major mechanosensing cells during bone remodeling. Current bone
mechanotransduction research use macro-scale devices such as flow chambers; however in …

Sorting droplet (cells) process is critically important in some biological and medical
applications, eg, disease diagnosis and cellular behavior investigation. The previously …

Small scale robots are precise end-effectors that can manipulate objects with a high degree
of accuracy. Many surgical and on-chip tasks can be performed by manipulating these …