Frog footpad adhesion
- Physical Intelligence
- Frog footpad adhesion
- Research Overview
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Physical Intelligence
- Protein-based multifunctional and self-healing robotic materials
- Liquid crystal elastomers as novel smart small-scale robot materials
- Bioinspired microfibers for skin adhesion and wearable sensors
- Liquid-superrepellent, high-performance and 3D complex fibrillar adhesives
- Machine learning-based optimization of fibrillar adhesives
- Adhesion of phase-changing liquid Gallium droplets
- 3D printing of cellulose-based stiffness-programmable materials
- Fibrillar adhesives- and suction-based robotic soft grippers
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Mobile Millirobotics
- 3D assembly-based fabrication of complex, soft, multimaterial millirobots
- Shape-programmable soft millirobots with multimodal adaptive locomotion
- Jumping spider leg folding mechanism and body fluid properties
- Machine learning methods for soft millirobot design and control
- Reconfigurable multifunctional ferrofluid droplet robots
- Larval fish–like efficient undulatory swimming
- Soft-bodied jellyfish-like swimming
- Heat-assisted reprogramming of magnetic soft millirobots
- Multimodal locomotion of bioinspired jumping-gliding robot (Multimo-Bat)
- Morphological intelligence counters foot slipping in locust and dynamic robots
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Mobile Microrobotics
- 3D printing of multifunctional, biocompatible and personalized microrobots
- Bacteria-powered biohybrid microswimmers
- Microalga-powered biohybrid microswimmers
- Acoustically-powered mobile microrobots
- Light-powered microswimmers
- Magnetic surface microrollers in the blood stream
- Magnetic soft microrobots made of linked microactuator networks
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Microrobot Collectives
- Self-assembling magnetic robots with dynamic boundaries
- Self-organized mobile microrobotic swarms
- Shape-encoded programmable dynamic assembly of mobile microrobots
- Collective formation and cooperative behavior of magnetic microrobot collectives
- Rotating magnetic microrobot collectives at the air-water interface
- Information entropy to detect order in self-organizing systems
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Small-scale Wireless Medical Robots
- Optoacoustic tracking of mobile microrobots
- Wireless magnetic millirobots navigating inside brain and other soft tissues
- MRI-powered wireless medical millirobots
- Bioinspired cilia arrays for fluid pumping and object transport inside the body
- Wireless neural stimulation using magnetopiezoelectric nanoparticles
- Biocompatible magnetic materials for miniature medical robots
- Immune cell interaction dynamics of medical microrobots
- Pill-sized swallowable endoscopic soft capsule robot for fine-needle biopsy
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Equipment
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Transfer of Knowledge
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Past Projects
- Self-cleaning Fibrillar adhesives
- High-performance multiresponsive paper actuators
- Inflated soft actuators with reversible stable deformations
- Mobile micromanipulation
- Thermocapillary-driven micropumps
- Self-sensing paper actuators based on graphite-carbon nanotube hybrid films
- Parallel microcracks-based ultrasensitive and highly stretchable strain sensors
- Multifunctional ferrofluid-infused surfaces with reconfigurable multiscale topography
- Soiled adhesive pads shear clean by slipping: a robust self-cleaning mechanism in climbing beetles
- Enhanced optimal adhesion using mushroom microfibres
- Flapping wing-based highly dynamic flight
- Soft cubes