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SMR-O: Advancing Miniature Quadrupedal Piezoelectric Robots

Researchers developed SMR-O, a miniature quadrupedal piezoelectric robot, leveraging a novel spatial parallel mechanism and innovative piezoelectric actuator manufacturing. With peak speeds of 48.66 cm/s and a payload capacity of 5.5 g, SMR-O demonstrates rapid and agile locomotion, promising applications in search and rescue, exploration, medical diagnostics, and fault detection.

25 Apr 2024

Spinning Robots Mimic Cells to Unlock Immune Response Secrets

Scientists at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and Department of Chemistry have created microscopic, rotating micro-robots that attach to immune cells and investigate their functionality.

21 Feb 2024

New Unimorph SMA-Based Actuator for Microrobotics

Washington State University produced two insect-like robots that are the tiniest, lightest, and fastest fully functional micro-robots ever made: the mini-bug and the water strider.

19 Jan 2024

Wireless Millirobots Navigate Blood Vessels with Precision

Wireless millirobots have achieved a groundbreaking feat by navigating through a narrow blood vessel in both directions, against and along the arterial flow.

12 Dec 2023

The Magnetic Microrobots With a Promising Biomedical Future

Scientists at the Surgical Robotics Laboratory of the University of Twente have achieved a breakthrough in collaborative magnetic microrobotics: the successful collaboration of two minuscule magnetic microrobots to manipulate and assemble passive objects in a three-dimensional space.

24 Oct 2023

SERS and Machine Learning Methods for Rapid Detection of Microplastics

In collaboration with the KOTITI Testing & Research Institute, a research team led by Dr Ho Sang Jung at the Department of Nano-Bio Convergence at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), a government-funded research facility under the Ministry of Science and ICT, has created the first technology that can quickly detect microplastics (MPs) with high sensitivity.

5 Oct 2023