Multimodal Locomotion and Cargo Transportation of Magnetically Actuated Quadruped Soft Microrobots.

ABSTRACT: 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 magne

SUBMITTER: Huang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10010670 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature