AIMC Topic: Micromanipulation

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Quadrupole Magnetic Tweezers for Precise Cell Transportation.

IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
This research introduces a quadrupole magnetic tweezers which can be used for precise cell transportation by actuating magnetic spherical microrobots. The focus of the system is on navigating and manipulating cells within environments characterized b...

Miniature origami robot for various biological micromanipulations.

Nature communications
Robotic micromanipulation is widely applied in biological research and medical procedures, providing a level of operational precision and stability beyond human capability. Compared with traditional micromanipulators that require assembly from many p...

Collection of microrobots for gentle cell manipulation.

Science robotics
Optically actuated soft microrobotic tools were designed for cell transportation, manipulation, and cell-to-cell interactions.

Responsive Hydrogel-Based Modular Microrobots for Multi-Functional Micromanipulation.

Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
Microrobots show great potential in biomedical applications such as drug delivery and cell manipulations. However, current microrobots are mostly fabricated as a single entity and type and the tasks they can perform are limited. In this paper, modula...

Advancements in the future of automating micromanipulation techniques in the IVF laboratory using deep convolutional neural networks.

Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics
PURPOSE: To determine if deep learning artificial intelligence algorithms can be used to accurately identify key morphologic landmarks on oocytes and cleavage stage embryo images for micromanipulation procedures such as intracytoplasmic sperm injecti...

Deconstructing body axis morphogenesis in zebrafish embryos using robot-assisted tissue micromanipulation.

Nature communications
Classic microsurgical techniques, such as those used in the early 1900s by Mangold and Spemann, have been instrumental in advancing our understanding of embryonic development. However, these techniques are highly specialized, leading to issues of int...

MiGriBot: A miniature parallel robot with integrated gripping for high-throughput micromanipulation.

Science robotics
Although robotic micromanipulation using microtweezers has been widely explored, the current manipulation throughput hardly exceeds one operation per second. Increasing the manipulation throughput is thus a key factor for the emergence of robotized m...

Magnetically Actuated Cell-Robot System: Precise Control, Manipulation, and Multimode Conversion.

Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
Border-nearing microrobots with self-propelling and navigating capabilities have promising applications in micromanipulation and bioengineering, because they can stimulate the surrounding fluid flow for object transportation. However, ensuring the bi...

A protein-coated micro-sucker patch inspired by octopus for adhesion in wet conditions.

Scientific reports
In medical robotics, micromanipulation becomes particularly challenging in the presence of blood and secretions. Nature offers many examples of adhesion strategies, which can be divided into two macro-categories: morphological adjustments and chemica...

The optoelectronic microrobot: A versatile toolbox for micromanipulation.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Microrobotics extends the reach of human-controlled machines to submillimeter dimensions. We introduce a microrobot that relies on optoelectronic tweezers (OET) that is straightforward to manufacture, can take nearly any desirable shape or form, and ...