David Cappelleri1
Purdue University1
Small soft robotic systems are being explored for myriad applications in medicine. Specifically, magnetically actuated microrobots capable of remote manipulation hold significant potential for in vivo applications such as targeted delivery of therapeutics and biologicals as well as for in vitro applications such as micromanipulation and biological material characterization. In this talk I will present families of wireless soft mobile microrobots driven by external magnetic fields that we have developed over the years for biomedical applications. These include the micro-scale tumbling microrobots (µTUM), magnetically aligned nanorods in alginate capsules microrobots (MANiACs), and the micro-force sensing mobile microrobots (µFSMM), and recent work in the area of adaptive soft microrobotics for advanced functionality.