Multimodal Locomotion and Cargo Transportation of Magnetically Actuated Quadruped Soft Microrobots
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 a...
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| description | 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 magnetic field. The experiment demonstrated the robot’s excellent obstacle-crossing ability by walking on the surface with steps and moving in the bottom of a stomach model with gullies. In particular, by controlling the conical angle of the external conical magnetic field, microbeads gripping, transportation, and release of the microrobot were demonstrated. In the future, the quadruped microrobot with excellent obstacle-crossing and gripping capabilities will be relevant for biomedical applications and micromanipulation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dc33ade379164969978809570309d0692023-06-05T19:18:55ZengAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)Cyborg and Bionic Systems2692-76322022-01-01202210.34133/cbsystems.0004Multimodal Locomotion and Cargo Transportation of Magnetically Actuated Quadruped Soft MicrorobotsChenyang Huang0Zhengyu Lai1Xinyu Wu2Tiantian Xu3Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Robotics and Intelligent System, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China.Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Robotics and Intelligent System, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China.Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Robotics and Intelligent System, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China.Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Robotics and Intelligent System, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China.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 magnetic field. The experiment demonstrated the robot’s excellent obstacle-crossing ability by walking on the surface with steps and moving in the bottom of a stomach model with gullies. In particular, by controlling the conical angle of the external conical magnetic field, microbeads gripping, transportation, and release of the microrobot were demonstrated. In the future, the quadruped microrobot with excellent obstacle-crossing and gripping capabilities will be relevant for biomedical applications and micromanipulation.https://spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/cbsystems.0004 |
| spellingShingle | Chenyang Huang Zhengyu Lai Xinyu Wu Tiantian Xu Multimodal Locomotion and Cargo Transportation of Magnetically Actuated Quadruped Soft Microrobots Cyborg and Bionic Systems |
| title | Multimodal Locomotion and Cargo Transportation of Magnetically Actuated Quadruped Soft Microrobots |
| title_full | Multimodal Locomotion and Cargo Transportation of Magnetically Actuated Quadruped Soft Microrobots |
| title_fullStr | Multimodal Locomotion and Cargo Transportation of Magnetically Actuated Quadruped Soft Microrobots |
| title_full_unstemmed | Multimodal Locomotion and Cargo Transportation of Magnetically Actuated Quadruped Soft Microrobots |
| title_short | Multimodal Locomotion and Cargo Transportation of Magnetically Actuated Quadruped Soft Microrobots |
| title_sort | multimodal locomotion and cargo transportation of magnetically actuated quadruped soft microrobots |
| url | https://spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/cbsystems.0004 |
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