As we move towards the miniaturization of devices to perform tasks at the nano and
microscale, it has become increasingly important to develop new methods for actuation …

Microfluidics has significantly contributed to the expansion of the frontiers of microbial
ecology over the past decade by allowing researchers to observe the behaviors of microbes …

Helical microrobots have the potential to be used in a variety of application areas, such as in
medical procedures, cell biology, or lab‐on‐a‐chip. They are powered and steered …

Living beings have an unsurpassed range of ways to manipulate objects and interact with
them. They can make autonomous decisions and can heal themselves. So far, a …

The field of microrobotics has seen tremendous advances in recent years. The principles
governing the design of such submillimeter scale robots rely on an understanding of …

When cells of Escherichia coli are grown in broth and suspended at low density in a motility
medium, they swim independently, exploring a homogeneous, isotropic environment. Cell …

We study synchronization of an array of rotors on a substrate that are coupled by
hydrodynamic interaction. Each rotor, which is modeled by an effective rigid body, is driven …

Microorganisms and specifically motile bacteria have been recently added to the list of micro-
actuators typically considered for the implementation of microsystems and microrobots. Such …

Flagellated bacteria have been embraced by the micro-robotics community as a highly
efficient microscale actuation method, capable of converting chemical energy into …

Flagellated chemotactic bacteria have been utilized as actuators for propulsion of
polystyrene microbeads by randomly attaching several bacteria on their surface. In this work …