ArticleScience advances2024
Robot-assisted chirality-tunable acoustic vortex tweezers for contactless, multifunctional, 4-DOF object manipulation.
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- Reconfigurable dynamic acoustic holography with acoustically transparent and programmable metamaterial.Nature communications · 2025Article
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- Scalable acoustic virtual stirrer for enhanced interfacial enzymatic nucleic acid reactions.Science advances · 2025Article
- Model-based reinforcement learning for ultrasound-driven autonomous microrobots.Nature machine intelligence · 2025Article
- Tunable Acoustic Tweezer System for Precise Three-Dimensional Particle Manipulation.Micromachines · 2024Article
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Abstract
Robotic manipulation of small objects has shown great potential for engineering, biology, and chemistry research. However, existing robotic platforms have difficulty in achieving contactless, high-resolution, 4-degrees-of-freedom (4-DOF) manipulation of small objects, and noninvasive maneuvering of objects in regions shielded by tissue and bone barriers. Here, we present chirality-tunable acoustic vortex tweezers that can tune acoustic vortex chirality, transmit through biological barriers, trap single micro- to millimeter-sized objects, and control object rotation. Assisted by programmable robots, our acoustic systems further enable contactless, high-resolution translation of single objects. Our systems were demonstrated by tuning acoustic vortex chirality, controlling object rotation, and translating objects along arbitrary-shaped paths. Moreover, we used our systems to trap single objects in regions with tissue and skull barriers and translate an object inside a Y-shaped channel of a thick biomimetic phantom. In addition, we showed the function of ultrasound imaging-assisted acoustic manipulation by monitoring acoustic object manipulation via live ultrasound imaging.
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