An untethered, electrostatic, globally controllable MEMS micro-robot

By Bruce Randall Donald, Christopher G. Levey, Craig D. McGray, Igor Paprotny, Daniela Rus. Journal of microelectromechanical systems, 2006

353 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

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In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

1. Eric D. Diller
2. Metin Sitti

In Electrical and Electronic Engineering

1. Robert J. Wood

In Mechanical Engineering

1. Metin Sitti
2. Steven Floyd
3. Chytra Pawashe
4. Robert J. Wood
5. Eric D. Diller
6. Wenqi Hu
7. Sehyuk Yim
8. Daniela Rus

Citations in the corpus

• Progress on ‘pico’ air vehicles (2012, methodology): “Microrobots have been made using MEMS surface and bulk micromachining techniques (Yeh et al., 1996; Donald et al., 2006).”
• Planar Microassembly by Parallel Actuation of MEMS Microrobots (2008, background): “cant extension of the designs for single microrobot in isolation [1].”
• Modeling and Experimental Characterization of an Untethered Magnetic Micro-Robot (2009, methodology): “…fields required are much smaller than in purely electromagnetic gradient-based systems Mathieu et al. (2003) Yesin et al. (2006), and the stick–slip rocking motion allows movement over much larger surface obstacles than more planar locomotion strategies (Donald et al. 2006a Vollmers et al. 2008).”
• Biomedical Applications of Untethered Mobile Milli/Microrobots (2015, background): “As locomotion, they could swim, crawl, roll, spin, or hop [30], Fig.”