ReviewNature protocols2024
Design and build of small-scale magnetic soft-bodied robots with multimodal locomotion.
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19 citing papers in PubMed.
- CD5Science advances · 2026Article
- 3D Printing of Magnetic Soft Materials for Functional Structures and Devices.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026Review
- A Data-Driven Inverse Design Methodology for Magnetic Soft Millirobots Navigating in Confined Spaces.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Ultrasound-guided closed-loop control of magnetic hydrogel microrobots with adaptive gait switching.Microsystems & nanoengineering · 2026Article
- Reinforcement learning in linear embedding space unlocks generalizable control across soft robot configurations.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Magnetic field control with dual robotic tunable magnetic end effectors.Communications engineering · 2026Article
- In situ mechanostimulation of biohybrid millirobots for enhanced cell functionality and delivery.Science advances · 2026Article
- Hybrid-Driven Bacillus Calmette-Guérin Carrier for Targeted Immuno-Chemo Combo Therapy in Bladder Cancer.Cyborg and bionic systems (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Article
- Articulated Untethered Magnetic Actuators for Multimodal and Cross-Scale Operations.Cyborg and bionic systems (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Article
- Multistable thin-shell metastructures for multiresponsive reconfigurable metabots.Science advances · 2025Article
- Fabrication of Organic/Inorganic Nanocomposites: From Traditional Synthesis to Additive Manufacturing.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025Review
- Supramolecular hydrogel actuators with reprogrammable magnetic orientation by locally mediated viscoelasticity and pinning force.Science advances · 2025Article
- Template-free 3D programmable magnetization of soft millirobots induced by interlayer stress.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Thermoelastic twisting-assisted crystal jumping based on a self-healing molecular crystal.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- 4D Printing of Magnetically Responsive Materials and Their Applications.Research (Washington, D.C.) · 2025Review
- Analysis of magnetic configuration and its effect on motion in magnetically actuated soft miniature robots within tubular confinement.Journal of micro-bio robotics · 2025Article
- Individual and collective manipulation of multifunctional bimodal droplets in three dimensions.Science advances · 2024Article
- Octopus-Inspired Soft Robot for Slow Drug Release.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Undulatory Propulsion at Milliscale on Water Surface.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024Article
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Abstract
Small-scale magnetic soft-bodied robots can be designed to operate based on different locomotion modes to navigate and function inside unstructured, confined and varying environments. These soft millirobots may be useful for medical applications where the robots are tasked with moving inside the human body. Here we cover the entire process of developing small-scale magnetic soft-bodied millirobots with multimodal locomotion capability, including robot design, material preparation, robot fabrication, locomotion control and locomotion optimization. We describe in detail the design, fabrication and control of a sheet-shaped soft millirobot with 12 different locomotion modes for traversing different terrains, an ephyra jellyfish-inspired soft millirobot that can manipulate objects in liquids through various swimming modes, a larval zebrafish-inspired soft millirobot that can adjust its body stiffness for efficient propulsion in different swimming speeds and a dual stimuli-responsive sheet-shaped soft millirobot that can switch its locomotion modes automatically by responding to changes in the environmental temperature. The procedure is aimed at users with basic expertise in soft robot development. The procedure requires from a few days to several weeks to complete, depending on the degree of characterization required.
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