Microrobot collectives with reconfigurable morphologies, behaviors, and functions.

ABSTRACT: Mobile microrobots, which can navigate, sense, and interact with their environment, could potentially revolutionize biomedicine and environmental remediation. Many self-organizing microrobotic collectives have been developed to overcome inherent limits in actuation, sensing, and manipulation of individual microrobots; however, reconfigurable collectives with robust transitions between behaviors are rare. Such systems that perform multiple functions are advantageous to operate in complex environments. Here, we present a versatile microrobotic collective system capable of on-demand reconfiguration to adapt to and utilize their environments to perform various functions at the air-water interface. Our system exhibits diverse modes ranging from isotropic to anisotrpic behaviors and transitions

SUBMITTER: Gardi G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9043221 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature