Automated Robotic Liquid Handling Assembly of Modular DNA Devices

Automated Robotic Liquid Handling Assembly of Modular DNA Devices

Recent advances in modular DNA assembly techniques have enabled synthetic biologists to test significantly more of the available "design space" represented by "devices" created as combinations of individual genetic components. However, manual assembly of such large numbers of devices is time-intensive, error-prone, and costly. The increasing sophistication and scale of synthetic biology researc...

Robotic Assembly of Modular Robots in Simulation

Different methods for simulating magnetic forces in Gazebo are analyzed. The most reliable approach is to link bodies connected by magnetic forces through the use of joints. Linking the bodies together through joints allows the entire structure to behave as one body, without the unexpected problems encountered in other methods of simulation. The ability to reliably identify and grasp simulated ...

Robotic Systems for Handling and Assembly

Optimized Binary Modular Reconfigurable Robotic Devices

Binary robotic devices with large degrees of freedom have been proposed by a number of researchers. However, experimental implementations of these concepts have been built with conventional components. These physical systems are heavy, complex and far from being practical devices. In this paper, a lightweight, compliant mechanism driven by optimized magnet-coil actuators is proposed and develop...

Modular Robotic Platform for Silicon Micromechanical Assembly

As no reliable methods is available to manipulate component whose typical size is up to 100 μm, current industrial assembled products contained only components down to this physical limit. In that scale, micro-assembly requires specific handling strategies to overcome adhesion and high precision robots. This paper deals with an original robotic system able to perform reliable micro-assembly of ...