microbots

                              MICROBOTICS

Microbotics (or microrobotics) is the field of miniature robotics, in particular mobile robots with characteristic dimensions less than 1 mm. The term can also be used for robots capable of handling micrometer size components. 

While the 'micro' prefix has been used subjectively to mean small, standardizing on length scales avoids confusion. Thus a nanorobot would have characteristic dimensions at or below 1 micrometer, or manipulate components on the 1 to 1000 nm size range. A microrobot would have characteristic dimensions less than 1 millimeter, a millirobot would have dimensions less than a cm, a minirobot would have dimensions less than 10 cm (4 in), and a small robot would have dimensions less than 100 cm (39 in).

Due to their small size, microbots are potentially very cheap, and could be used in large numbers (swarm robotics) to explore environments which are too small or too dangerous for people or larger robots. It is expected that microbots will be useful in applications such as looking for survivors in collapsed buildings after an earthquake, or crawling through the digestive tract. What microbots lack in brawn or computational power, they can make up for by using large numbers, as in swarms of microbots.

The way microrobots move around is a function of their purpose and necessary size. At submicron sizes, the physical world demands rather bizarre ways of getting around. The Reynolds number for airborne robots is less than unity; the viscous forces dominate the inertial forces, so “flying” could use the viscosity of air, rather than Bernoulli's principle of lift. Robots moving through fluids may require rotating flagella like the motile form of E. coli. Hopping is stealthy and energy-efficient; it allows the robot to negotiate the surfaces of a variety of terrains.^[7] Pioneering calculations (Solem 1994) examined possible behaviours based on physical realities.^[8]

One of the major challenges in developing a microrobot is to achieve motion using a very limited power supply. The microrobots can use a small lightweight battery source like a coin cell or can scavenge power from the surrounding environment in the form of vibration or light energy.^[9] Microrobots are also now using biological motors as power sources, such as flagellated Serratia marcescens, to draw chemical power from the surrounding fluid to actuate the robotic device. These biorobots can be directly controlled by stimuli such as chemotaxis or galvanotaxis with several control schemes available. A popular alternative to an on-board battery is to power the robots using externally induced power. Examples include the use of electromagnetic fields ^[10], ultrasound and light to activate and control micro robots.

DIFFRENT TYPES OF MICRO ROBOTS:

• Swarm robotics
  Swarm robotics is an approach to the coordination of multiple robots as a system which consist of large numbers of mostly simple physical robots. It is
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• Micro air vehicle
  Neurotechnology for Biomimetic Robots. The MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-01193-8. Zufferey, J.-C. (2008). Bio-inspired Flying Robots: Experimental Synthesis of
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• Microbotics (redirect from Micro robot)
  of miniature robotics, in particular mobile robots with characteristic dimensions less than 1 mm. The term can also be used for robots capable of handling
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• Alice mobile robot
  longer works or was moved; however, - Autonomous Systems Lab Robots where Alice and other robots reside - Autonomous Systems Lab at EPFL before 2006 - Autonomous
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• Seiko Epson Micro flying robot
  its micro-mechatronics technology and to explore the possible use of micro robots and the development of component technology applications. The µFR is
  4 KB (332 words) - 16:11, 8 September 2019
• RoboBee (category Micro robots)
  twelve years of research, RoboBee solved two key technical challenges of micro-robotics. Engineers invented a process inspired by pop-up books that allowed
  13 KB (1,543 words) - 05:24, 23 March 2020
• Robot
  Playing Robot (TOPIO) to industrial robots, medical operating robots, patient assist robots, dog therapy robots, collectively programmed swarm robots, UAV
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• S-bot mobile robot
  most complex and featured robots ever for its size. The s-bot was ranked on position 39 in the list of “The 50 Best Robots Ever” (fiction or real) by
  7 KB (681 words) - 23:43, 6 November 2019
• Pocketdelta robot
  The PocketDelta Robot is a microrobot based on a parallel structure called “Delta robot”. It has been designed to perform micro-assembly tasks where high-speed
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• Swarm robotic platforms
  large number of robots (with limited sensing/processing ability) to accomplish a common task/problem. Hardware limitation and cost of robot platforms limit
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• DelFly (category Micro robots)
  fully controllable camera-equipped flapping wing Micro Air Vehicle or Ornithopter developed at the Micro Air Vehicle Lab of the Delft University of Technology
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• Micro-Star International
  Micro-Star International Co., Ltd (MSI; Chinese: 微星科技股份有限公司) is a Taiwanese multinational information technology corporation headquartered in New Taipei
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• Khepera mobile robot
  scholar search with khepera mobile robots returns 4800 hits [2]. The Khepera helped in the emergence of evolutionary robotics [3][4]. Diameter: 55 mm Height:
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• FlyTech Dragonfly (category Micro robots)
  also uses the same flapping wing design as the DelFly. The newly available micro-sized motors and batteries developed for cellular telephones made it possible
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• Intelligent Small World Autonomous Robots for Micro-manipulation
  Small World Autonomous Robots for Micro-manipulation (I-Swarm) is a European research project to develop millimeter-scale robots for dangerous activities
  2 KB (242 words) - 09:58, 24 January 2020
• Materially engineered artificial pollinators (category Micro robots)
  engineered artificial pollinators are experimental radiowave-controlled micro-drones that use ionic liquid gels for artificial pollination without living
  6 KB (648 words) - 13:42, 13 December 2018
• Robot competition
  A robot competition is an event where the abilities and characteristics of robots may be tested and assessed. Usually they have to beat other robots in
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• Microman (category Transforming toy robots)
  Microman action figures to robots and other items. Specifically, their new focus was on their line of transformable items in the Micro Change line. Technically
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• E-puck mobile robot
  e-puck is a small (7 cm) differential wheeled mobile robot. It was originally designed for micro-engineering education by Michael Bonani and Francesco
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• Robotics
  command from a human. Other flying robots include cruise missiles, the Entomopter, and the Epson micro helicopter robot. Robots such as the Air Penguin, Ai
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