Modular reconfiguration and actuation of microrobotic assemblies
Prashant Kishor Sharma, Tsung-Yen Lu, Chia-Yuan Chen · 2026
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Description
Prashant Sharma, Tsung-Yen Lu, and Chia-Yuan Chen build tiny swimmers from snap together parts in a 2026 paper. Moving cargo inside microfluidic chips is tricky, since flow there is smooth and steady. Their assembly mixes soft, hard magnetic, and arc shaped modules that join on their own under magnetic fields. The same fields drive a wiggling motion, and the parts can also come apart on command.
Shifting the field swings the motion between force driven and torque driven styles. The wiggle passes from the driven legs to a working head. In tests, particles were swept and carried with forward and backward success near ninety-one and ninety-two percent. A rebuildable micro robot of this kind could ferry samples inside lab chips.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Prashant Kishor Sharma, Tsung-Yen Lu, Chia-Yuan Chen |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 61 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |