Microrobotics deals with the design, fabrication and control of microrobots to perform tasks in the microworld (i.e. the world of submillimetric objects). While end-effectors experienced considerable developments, few works concerned the development of microrobot architectures adapted to the microworld. Most of the actual robots are bulky and based on the miniaturization of traditional architec...

Microrobots are promising tools for applications that require micromanipulation, such as single-cell manipulation and surgery, tissue engineering, desktop manufacturing. This paper briefly reviews common microrobot actuation mechanisms, then current progress in several capabilities desirable with an emphasis on optothermal microrobots.

Evolutionary Artificial Potential Field (EAPF) functions are utilized for mobile robot navigation in a microrobot soccer (MiroSot) environment. In a micro-robot soccer system the robots are monitored using an overhead CCD Camera, making it suitable for real time application of the EAPF functions. The effectiveness of the EAPF functions in real time mobile robot navigation are verified through e...

Communication among participants (agents, robots) is central to an appearance of Collective AI. In this work we deal with the development of local communication mechanisms for real microrobotic swarms. We demonstrate that despite of very limited capabilities of the microrobot, the specific construction of communication hardware and software allows very extended collective capabilities of the wh...

Magnetic actuation techniques and microrobots have attracted great interest since they potential in biomedicine applications. Interventional emerged as a tool to handle wide range of minimally invasive surgeries (MIS). However, current MIS procedures are constrained by the limitation manual operation surgeon. Thus, various microrobotic solutions including magnetic navigation systems been propos...