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Multimodal Locomotion and Cargo Transportation of Magnetically Actuated Quadruped Soft Microrobots
Untethered microrobots have attracted extensive attention due to their potential for biomedical applications and micromanipulation at the small scale. Soft microrobots are of great research importance because of their highly deformable ability to achieve not only multiple locomotion mechanisms but a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10010670/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36924475 http://dx.doi.org/10.34133/cbsystems.0004 |
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author | Huang, Chenyang Lai, Zhengyu Wu, Xinyu Xu, Tiantian |
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description | Untethered microrobots have attracted extensive attention due to their potential for biomedical applications and micromanipulation at the small scale. Soft microrobots are of great research importance because of their highly deformable ability to achieve not only multiple locomotion mechanisms but also minimal invasion to the environment. However, the existing microrobots are still limited in their ability to locomote and cross obstacles in unstructured environments compared to conventional legged robots. Nature provides much inspiration for developing miniature robots. Here, we propose a bionic quadruped soft thin-film microrobot with a nonmagnetic soft body and 4 magnetic flexible legs. The quadruped soft microrobot can achieve multiple controllable locomotion modes in the external magnetic field. The experiment demonstrated the robot’s excellent obstacle-crossing ability by walking on the surface with steps and moving in the bottom of a stomach model with gullies. In particular, by controlling the conical angle of the external conical magnetic field, microbeads gripping, transportation, and release of the microrobot were demonstrated. In the future, the quadruped microrobot with excellent obstacle-crossing and gripping capabilities will be relevant for biomedical applications and micromanipulation. |
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spelling | pubmed-100106702023-03-14 Multimodal Locomotion and Cargo Transportation of Magnetically Actuated Quadruped Soft Microrobots Huang, Chenyang Lai, Zhengyu Wu, Xinyu Xu, Tiantian Cyborg Bionic Syst Research Article Untethered microrobots have attracted extensive attention due to their potential for biomedical applications and micromanipulation at the small scale. Soft microrobots are of great research importance because of their highly deformable ability to achieve not only multiple locomotion mechanisms but also minimal invasion to the environment. However, the existing microrobots are still limited in their ability to locomote and cross obstacles in unstructured environments compared to conventional legged robots. Nature provides much inspiration for developing miniature robots. Here, we propose a bionic quadruped soft thin-film microrobot with a nonmagnetic soft body and 4 magnetic flexible legs. The quadruped soft microrobot can achieve multiple controllable locomotion modes in the external magnetic field. The experiment demonstrated the robot’s excellent obstacle-crossing ability by walking on the surface with steps and moving in the bottom of a stomach model with gullies. In particular, by controlling the conical angle of the external conical magnetic field, microbeads gripping, transportation, and release of the microrobot were demonstrated. In the future, the quadruped microrobot with excellent obstacle-crossing and gripping capabilities will be relevant for biomedical applications and micromanipulation. AAAS 2022-12-30 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC10010670/ /pubmed/36924475 http://dx.doi.org/10.34133/cbsystems.0004 Text en Copyright © 2022 Chenyang Huang et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Exclusive licensee Beijing Institute of Technology Press. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Research Article Huang, Chenyang Lai, Zhengyu Wu, Xinyu Xu, Tiantian Multimodal Locomotion and Cargo Transportation of Magnetically Actuated Quadruped Soft Microrobots |
title | Multimodal Locomotion and Cargo Transportation of Magnetically Actuated Quadruped Soft Microrobots |
title_full | Multimodal Locomotion and Cargo Transportation of Magnetically Actuated Quadruped Soft Microrobots |
title_fullStr | Multimodal Locomotion and Cargo Transportation of Magnetically Actuated Quadruped Soft Microrobots |
title_full_unstemmed | Multimodal Locomotion and Cargo Transportation of Magnetically Actuated Quadruped Soft Microrobots |
title_short | Multimodal Locomotion and Cargo Transportation of Magnetically Actuated Quadruped Soft Microrobots |
title_sort | multimodal locomotion and cargo transportation of magnetically actuated quadruped soft microrobots |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10010670/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36924475 http://dx.doi.org/10.34133/cbsystems.0004 |
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