Miniaturization

Soft Robotic Grippers

Jun Shintake, Vito Cacucciolo, Dario Floreano, Herbert Shea

Citations: 1850 • 2018

Lab-on-a-chip: microfluidics in drug discovery

Petra S. Dittrich, A. Manz

Citations: 1828 • 2006

Flexible and stretchable electrodes for dielectric elastomer actuators

Samuel Rosset, Herbert Shea

Citations: 510 • 2012

Flagellated Magnetotactic Bacteria as Controlled MRI-trackable Propulsion and Steering Systems for Medical Nanorobots Operating in the Human Microvasculature

Sylvain Martel, Mahmood Mohammadi, Ouajdi Felfoul, Zhao Lu, Pierre Pouponneau

Citations: 453 • 2009

Bacterial flagella-based propulsion and on/off motion control of microscale objects

Bahareh Behkam, Metin Sitti

Citations: 348 • 2007

Waalbot: An Agile Small-Scale Wall-Climbing Robot Utilizing Dry Elastomer Adhesives

Michael Murphy, Metin Sitti

Citations: 262 • 2007

Toward Active Cannulas: Miniature Snake-Like Surgical Robots

Robert J. Webster, Allison M. Okamura, Noah J. Cowan

Citations: 253 • 2006

Self-assembly from milli- to nanoscales: methods and applications

Massimo Mastrangeli, Shaghayegh Abbasi, Cagdac Varel, Chris Van Hoof, J.-P. Celis, K. F. Böhringer

Citations: 251 • 2009

A compact soft actuator unit for small scale human friendly robots

Nikos G. Tsagarakis, Matteo Laffranchi, Bram Vanderborght, Darwin G. Caldwell

Citations: 248 • 2009

Bio‐Hybrid Cell‐Based Actuators for Microsystems

Rika Wright Carlsen, Metin Sitti

Citations: 229 • 2014

Miniaturized Swimming Soft Robot with Complex Movement Actuated and Controlled by Remote Light Signals

Chaolei Huang, Jiu‐an Lv, Xiaojun Tian, Yuechao Wang, Yanlei Yu, Jie Liu

Citations: 220 • 2015

Monolithic shape-programmable dielectric liquid crystal elastomer actuators

Zoey S. Davidson, Hamed Shahsavan, Amirreza Aghakhani, Lindsey Hines, Yu Xia, Shu Yang, Metin Sitti

Citations: 213 • 2019

GelSlim 3.0: High-Resolution Measurement of Shape, Force and Slip in a Compact Tactile-Sensing Finger

Ian Taylor, Siyuan Dong, Alberto Rodríguez

Citations: 211 • 2022

Snake-Like Units Using Flexible Backbones and Actuation Redundancy for Enhanced Miniaturization

Nabil Simaan

Citations: 177 • 2006

A review on actuation and sensing techniques for MEMS-based microgrippers

Sijie Yang, Qingsong Xu

Citations: 166 • 2017

Optically Driven Soft Micro Robotics

Sara Nocentini, Camilla Parmeggiani, Daniele Martella, Diederik S. Wiersma

Citations: 164 • 2018

A Novel 4-DOF Origami Grasper With an SMA-Actuation System for Minimally Invasive Surgery

Marco Salerno, Ketao Zhang, Arianna Menciassi, Jian S. Dai

Citations: 157 • 2016

Enabling smart vision with metasurfaces

Dragomir N. Neshev, Andrey E. Miroshnichenko

Citations: 151 • 2022

Low-dimensional nanostructures for monolithic 3D-integrated flexible and stretchable electronics

Qilin Hua, Guozhen Shen

Citations: 150 • 2024

Miniaturized HTS technologies – uHTS

Julian Wölcke, Dirk Ullmann

Citations: 148 • 2001