Microactuator

Development of flexible microactuator and its applications to robotic mechanisms

Koichi Suzumori, S. Iikura, Hirohisa Tanaka

Citations: 403 • 2002

Applying a flexible microactuator to robotic mechanisms

Koichi Suzumori, S. Iikura, Hirohisa Tanaka

Citations: 299 • 1992

Miniature Soft Electromagnetic Actuators for Robotic Applications

Thanh Nho, Thuc‐Quyen Nguyen, Yon Visell

Citations: 201 • 2018

Flexible microactuator for miniature robots

Koichi Suzumori, S. Iikura, Hirohisa Tanaka

Citations: 133 • 2002

Magnetic soft micromachines made of linked microactuator networks

Xinghao Hu, Immihan Ceren Yasa, Ziyu Ren, Sandhya Rani Goudu, Hakan Ceylan, Wenqi Hu, Metin Sitti

Citations: 127 • 2021

Wireless resonant magnetic microactuator for untethered mobile microrobots

Karl Vollmers, Dominic R. Frutiger, Bradley E. Kratochvil, Bradley J. Nelson

Citations: 126 • 2008

Powerful, soft combustion actuators for insect-scale robots

Cameron A. Aubin, Ronald H. Heisser, Ofek Peretz, Julia Timko, Jacqueline Lo, E. Farrell Helbling, Sadaf Sobhani, Amir D. Gat, Robert F. Shepherd

Citations: 110 • 2023

Miniature soft hand with curling rubber pneumatic actuators

Shuichi Wakimoto, Kengo Ogura, Koichi Suzumori, Yasutaka NISHIOKA

Citations: 107 • 2009

Elastic materials producing compliant robots

Koichi Suzumori

Citations: 107 • 1996

Liquid‐Crystal‐Elastomer‐Actuated Reconfigurable Microscale Kirigami Metastructures

Mingchao Zhang, Hamed Shahsavan, Yubing Guo, Abdon Pena‐Francesch, Yingying Zhang, Metin Sitti

Citations: 104 • 2021

Design, Fabrication, and Control of MEMS-Based Actuator Arrays for Air-Flow Distributed Micromanipulation

Y. Fukuta, Y.A. Chapuis, Yoshio Mita, Hiroyuki Fujita

Citations: 90 • 2006

Fiberless flexible microactuator designed by finite-element method

Koichi Suzumori, T. Maeda, H. Wantabe, Toshiaki Hisada

Citations: 84 • 1997

Light-triggered multi-joint microactuator fabricated by two-in-one femtosecond laser writing

Xin Chen, Zhongguo Ren, Leran Zhang, Liang Yang, Dawei Wang, Yanlei Hu, Jiawen Li, Jiaru Chu, Li Zhang, Dong Wu

Citations: 80 • 2023

A Biological Micro Actuator: Graded and Closed-Loop Control of Insect Leg Motion by Electrical Stimulation of Muscles

Feng Cao, Chao Zhang, T. Thang Vo‐Doan, Yao Li, Daniyal Haider Sangi, Jie Sheng Koh, Ngoc Anh Huynh, Mohamed Fareez Bin Aziz, Hao Yu Choo, Kazuo Ikeda, Pieter Abbeel, Michel M. Maharbiz, Hirotaka Sato

Citations: 65 • 2014

Flytrap Inspired pH‐Driven 3D Hydrogel Actuator by Femtosecond Laser Microfabrication

Jianyu Wang, Feng Jin, Xian‐Zi Dong, Jie Liu, Mei‐Ling Zheng

Citations: 64 • 2022

Flexible displacement sensor using injected conductive paste

Kenji Kure, Takefumi Kanda, Koichi Suzumori, Shuichi Wakimoto

Citations: 59 • 2007

3D Printing Microactuators for Soft Microrobots

Manav Tyagi, Geoffrey M. Spinks, Edwin W. H. Jager

Citations: 54 • 2020

Chip-on-tip endoscope incorporating a soft robotic pneumatic bending microactuator

Benjamin Gorissen, Michaël De Volder, Dominiek Reynaerts

Citations: 49 • 2018

SMALLBug: A 30-mg Crawling Robot Driven by a High-Frequency Flexible SMA Microactuator

Xuan-Truc Nguyen, Ariel A. Calderón, Alberto Rigo, Joey Z. Ge, Néstor O. Pérez-Arancibia

Citations: 49 • 2020

Soft magnetic composites for highly deformable actuators by four-dimensional electrohydrodynamic printing

Zhongbao Wang, Yigen Wu, Dezhi Wu, Daoheng Sun, Liwei Lin

Citations: 45 • 2021