Robotics in the Small, Part I: Microbotics

By Jake J. Abbott, Zoltán Nagy, Felix Beyeler, Bradley J. Nelson. IEEE robotics & automation magazine, 2007

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How Should Microrobots Swim? (2009, neutral): “Locomotion of microorganisms, adapted from [6].”
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