In recent years, magnetism has gained an enormous amount of interest among researchers
for actuating different sizes and types of bio/soft robots, which can be via an electromagnetic …

Untethered robots miniaturized to the length scale of millimeter and below attract growing
attention for the prospect of transforming many aspects of health care and bioengineering …

The design of soft matter in which internal fuels or an external energy input can generate
locomotion and shape transformations observed in living organisms is a key challenge …

Robots with submillimeter dimensions are of interest for applications that range from tools for
minimally invasive surgical procedures in clinical medicine to vehicles for manipulating …

The climbing microrobots have attracted growing attention due to their promising
applications in exploration and monitoring of complex, unstructured environments. Soft …

Microorganisms move in challenging environments by periodic changes in body shape. In
contrast, current artificial microrobots cannot actively deform, exhibiting at best passive …

Within the context of multiple mobile, and networked robot systems, this chapter explores the
current state of the art. After a brief introduction, we first examine architectures for multirobot …

Many living organisms track light sources and halt their movement when alignment is
achieved. This phenomenon, known as phototropism, occurs, for example, when plants self …

DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201404444 swimming of microrobots such as helical propulsion,[9, 10]
traveling wave propulsion [11] or pulling with magnetic field gradients.[12] If a micro-and …

Magnetic microrobotics has undergone approximately 20 years of development, and the
robotics and control communities have contributed significant theoretical and practical …