Reconfigurable Microrobotic Collectives Illuminate Future Medicine and Environmental Remediation

Reconfigurable Microrobotic Collectives Illuminate Future Medicine and Environmental Remediation

Abstract Mobile microrobots can navigate, sense the environment, and interact with it, potentially revolutionizing biomedicine and environmental remediation. Many self-organizing microrobotic collectives have been developed to overcome the inherent limitations of actuation, sensing, and manipulation of individual microrobots; however, reconfigurable collectives with robust transitions between behaviors are rare. Such multifunctional systems are advantageous for operation … Read more