AIMC Topic: Microtechnology

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Untethered microgripper-the dexterous hand at microscale.

Biomedical microdevices
Untethered microgrippers that can navigate in hard-to-reach and unpredictable environments are significantly important for biomedical applications such as targeted drug delivery, micromanipulation, minimally invasive surgery and in vivo biopsy. Compa...

Magnetically Driven Undulatory Microswimmers Integrating Multiple Rigid Segments.

Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
Mimicking biological locomotion strategies offers important possibilities and motivations for robot design and control methods. Among bioinspired microrobots, flexible microrobots exhibit remarkable efficiency and agility. These microrobots tradition...

High-Resolution SPECT Imaging of Stimuli-Responsive Soft Microrobots.

Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
Untethered small-scale robots have great potential for biomedical applications. However, critical barriers to effective translation of these miniaturized machines into clinical practice exist. High resolution tracking and imaging in vivo is one of th...

3D Fabrication of Fully Iron Magnetic Microrobots.

Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
Biocompatibility and high responsiveness to magnetic fields are fundamental requisites to translate magnetic small-scale robots into clinical applications. The magnetic element iron exhibits the highest saturation magnetization and magnetic susceptib...

Preliminary study on alginate/NIPAM hydrogel-based soft microrobot for controlled drug delivery using electromagnetic actuation and near-infrared stimulus.

Biomedical microdevices
Currently, microrobots are receiving attention because of their small size and motility, which can be applied to minimal invasive therapy. Additionally, various microrobots using hydrogel with the characteristics of biocompatibility and biodegradabil...

Insect-inspired neuromorphic computing.

Current opinion in insect science
The steady improvement in the performance of computing systems seen for many decades is levelling off as the miniaturization of semiconducting technology approaches the atomic limit, facing severe physical and technological issues. Neuromorphic compu...

Light-Driven Micro/Nanomotor for Promising Biomedical Tools: Principle, Challenge, and Prospect.

Accounts of chemical research
A micro/nanomotor (MNM), as miniaturized machinery, can potentially bridge the application gap between the traditional macroscale motor and the molecular motor to manipulate materials at the cellular scale. The fascinating biomedical potential applic...

Cell-Like Micromotors.

Accounts of chemical research
In the past decade, versatile micro- and nanosized machines have emerged as active agents for large-scale detoxification, sensing, microfabrication, and many other promising applications. Micromachines have also been envisioned as the next advancemen...

Droplets As Liquid Robots.

Artificial life
Liquid droplets are very simple objects present in our everyday life. They are extremely important for many natural phenomena as well as for a broad variety of industrial processes. The conventional research areas in which the droplets are studied in...

Neuromorphic device architectures with global connectivity through electrolyte gating.

Nature communications
Information processing in the brain takes place in a network of neurons that are connected with each other by an immense number of synapses. At the same time, neurons are immersed in a common electrochemical environment, and global parameters such as...