Miniature Robots

Miniature Robots
Author: Anastasia Suen
Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2019-02-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1731610777

Would you like to make a brush bot, art bot, or rolling robot car? Use recycled materials, school supplies, and small electronics to make your own miniature robots. This Makerspace title includes a glossary and websites.

Recent Progress in Medical Miniature Robots

Recent Progress in Medical Miniature Robots
Author: Li Zhang
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2024-10-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0443133867

Recent Progress in Medical Miniature Robots: From Bench to Bedside serves as a specialized and dedicated reference on miniature robots and their related biomedical applications. This book presents the latest achievements in the research of miniature robotics and introduces a variety of miniature robots on the milli-/micro-/nano-scale, with tethered/untethered and individual/swarm designs, describing the various types and analyzing the underlying principles per class. Recent Progress in Medical Miniature Robots: From Bench to Bedside is suitable for clinicians, academicians, healthcare professionals, researchers, students, engineers, and scientists working in the field of medical miniature robots and related biomedical applications. - Provides authoritative coverage of the fundamental research and medical applications of miniature robotics, from mm-scale to nm-scale and with tethered/untethered and individual/swarm designs - Focuses on the state-of-the-art research and up-to-date results of medical miniature robots - Describes the key medical applications of miniature robots, and provides insights into the ongoing research, and speculates on the future directions of medical miniature robots

Untethered Miniature Soft Robots

Untethered Miniature Soft Robots
Author: Li Zhang
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2024-02-14
Genre:
ISBN: 3527351779

Reference on achieving contactless manipulation of soft robots, detailing high level concepts and perspectives and technical skills of soft robots Untethered Miniature Soft Robots: Materials, Fabrications, and Applications introduces the emerging field of miniature soft robots and summarizes the recent rapid development in the field to date, describing different types of functional materials to build miniature soft robots, such as silicone elastomer, carbon-based materials, hydrogels, liquid crystal polymer, flexible ferrofluid, and liquid metal, and covering the material properties, fabrication strategies, and functionalities in soft robots together with their underlying mechanisms. The book discusses magnetically, thermally, optically, and chemically actuated soft robots in depth, explores the many specific applications of miniature soft robots in biomedical, environmental, and electrical fields and summarizes the development of miniature soft robots based on intelligent materials, actuation mechanisms, soft matter, fabrication strategies, actuation, and locomotion principles. In closing, the text summarizes the opportunities and challenges faced by miniature soft robots, providing expert insight into the possible futures of this field. Written by four highly qualified academics, Untethered Miniature Soft Robots covers sample topics such as: Soft elastomer-based robots with programmable magnetization profiles and untethered soft robots based on template-aiding Working mechanisms of carbon-based materials, covering light-induced expansion and shrinkage, and humidity-induced deformation Designing microscale building blocks, modular assembly of building blocks based on Denavit-Hartenberg (DH) matrix, and inverse and forward design of modular morphing systems Material designs of magnetic liquid crystal elastomers (LCE) systems, multiple-stimuli responsiveness of magnetic LCE systems, and adaptive locomotion of magnetic LCE-based robots Controllable deformation and motion behaviors, as well as applications of ferrofluids droplet robots (FDRs), including cargo capturing, object sorting, liquid pumping/mixing, and liquid skin. Providing highly detailed and up-to-date coverage of the topic, Untethered Miniature Soft Robots serves as an invaluable and highly comprehensive reference for researchers working in this promising field across a variety of disciplines, including materials scientists, mechanical and electronics engineers, polymer chemists, and biochemists.

Experimental Robotics

Experimental Robotics
Author: Oussama Khatib
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 580
Release: 2009-03-28
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3642001963

By the dawn of the new millennium, robotics has undergone a major transformation in scope and dimensions. This expansion has been brought about by the maturity of the field and the advances in its related technologies. From a largely dominant industrial focus, robotics has been rapidly expanding into the challenges of the human world. The new generation of robots is expected to safely and dependably co-habitat with humans in homes, workplaces, and communities, providing support in services, entertainment, education, healthcare, manufacturing, and assistance. Beyond its impact on physical robots, the body of knowledge robotics has produced is revealing a much wider range of applications reaching across diverse research areas and scientific disciplines, such as: biomechanics, haptics, neuros- ences, virtual simulation, animation, surgery, and sensor networks among others. In return, the challenges of the new emerging areas are proving an abundant source of stimulation and insights for the field of robotics. It is indeed at the intersection of disciplines that the most striking advances happen. The goal of the series of Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR) is to bring, in a timely fashion, the latest advances and developments in robotics on the basis of their significance and quality. It is our hope that the wider dissemination of research developments will stimulate more exchanges and collaborations among the research community and contribute to further advancement of this rapidly growing field.

Robots & Donuts

Robots & Donuts
Author: Eric Joyner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Doughnuts
ISBN: 9781595821164

In the years following WWII one of the major exports from Japan was toys, specifically tin toys. Joyner celebrates this forgetten era in a series of whimsical, thoughtful, sometimes tragic but always stunning paintings depicting mechnical men and women inspired by the designs of those toy tin machines.

Between Sea and Sky: Aerial Aquatic Locomotion in Miniature Robots

Between Sea and Sky: Aerial Aquatic Locomotion in Miniature Robots
Author: Raphael Zufferey
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2022-01-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030895750

This book reports on the state of the art in the field of aerial-aquatic locomotion, focusing on the main challenges concerning the translation of this important ability from nature to synthetic systems, and describing innovative engineering solutions that have been applied in practice by the authors at the Aerial Robotics Lab of Imperial College London. After a general introduction to aerial-aquatic locomotion in nature, and a summary of the most important engineering achievements, the book introduces readers to important physical and mathematical aspects of the multimodal locomotion problem. Besides the basic physics involved in aerial-aquatic locomotion, the role of different phenomena happening in fluids, or those due to structural mechanics effects or to power provision, are presented in depth, across a large dimension range, from millimeters to hundreds of meters. In turn, a practice-oriented discussion on the obstacles and opportunities of miniaturization, for both robots and animals is carried out. This is followed by applied engineering considerations, which describe relevant hardware considerations involved in propulsion, control, communication and fabrication. Different case studies are analyzed in detail, reporting on the latest research carried out by the authors, and covering topics such as propulsive aquatic escape, the challenging mechanics of water impact, and a hybrid sailing and flying aircraft. Offering extensive and timely information on the design, construction and operation of small-scale robots, and on multimodal locomotion, this book provides researchers, students and professionals with a comprehensive and timely reference guide to the topic of aerial-aquatic locomotion, and the relevant bioinspired approaches. It is also expected to inspire future research and foster a stronger multidisciplinary discussion in the field.

Selected Topics in Micro/Nano-robotics for Biomedical Applications

Selected Topics in Micro/Nano-robotics for Biomedical Applications
Author: Yi Guo
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2012-09-25
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1441984119

Micro/Nano-robotics for Biomedical Applications features a system approach and incorporates modern methodologies in autonomous mobile robots for programmable and controllable micro/nano-robots aiming at biomedical applications. The book provides chapters of instructional materials in micro/nanorobotics for biomedical applications. The book features lecture units on micro/nanorobot components and techniques, including sensors, actuator, power supply, and micro/nano-fabrication and assembly. It also contains case studies on using micro/nano-robots in biomedical environments and in biomedicine, as well as a design example to conceptually develop a Vitamin-pill sized robot to enter human’s gastrointestinal tract. Laboratory modules to teach robot navigation and cooperation methods suitable to biomedical applications will be also provided based on existing simulation and robot platforms.

Robotics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

Robotics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Author: Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 1801
Release: 2013-10-31
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 146664608X

"This book explores some of the most recent developments in robotic motion, artificial intelligence, and human-machine interaction, providing insight into a wide variety of applications and functional areas"--Provided by publisher.

Advances In Cooperative Robotics - Proceedings Of The 19th International Conference On Clawar 2016

Advances In Cooperative Robotics - Proceedings Of The 19th International Conference On Clawar 2016
Author: Mohammad Osman Tokhi
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 894
Release: 2016-08-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9813149140

This book provides state-of-the-art scientific and engineering research findings and developments in the area of mobile robotics and associated support technologies around the theme of cooperative robotics. The book contains peer reviewed articles presented at the CLAWAR 2016 conference. The book contains a strong stream of papers on multi-legged locomotion and cooperative robotics. There is also a strong collection of papers on human assistive devices, notably wearable exoskeletal and prosthetic devices, and personal care robots and mobility assistance devices designed to meet the growing challenges due to the global ageing society. Robot designs based on biological inspirations and ethical concerns and issues related to the design, development and deployment of robots are also strongly featured.