TY - JOUR
T1 - Untethered micro-robot with gripping mechanism for on-chip cell surgery utilizing outer magnetic force
AU - Ichikawa, A.
AU - Sakuma, S.
AU - Arai, F.
AU - Akagi, S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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Copyright 2015 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2014/9/22
Y1 - 2014/9/22
N2 - We have developed a highly functional untethered micro-robot that can manipulate cells with high gripping force in a micro-fluidic chip. The robot has gripping mechanism for grasping and transportation of cells with sufficient power. A permanent magnet is attached at the center of the gripping mechanism, and an electrical magnet controls the position of the magnet from the bottom of the micro-fluidic chip. The distance accuracy of the gripper is 3.0 μm, and it can activate about 50 Hz. The robot has four permanent magnets for positioning, and other four permanent magnets control the robot from the bottom of the micro-fluidic chip. The robot is made very thin and small to allow maneuverability in a micro-fluidic chip. We succeeded in high-power handling and cutting of a cell using this micro-robot.
AB - We have developed a highly functional untethered micro-robot that can manipulate cells with high gripping force in a micro-fluidic chip. The robot has gripping mechanism for grasping and transportation of cells with sufficient power. A permanent magnet is attached at the center of the gripping mechanism, and an electrical magnet controls the position of the magnet from the bottom of the micro-fluidic chip. The distance accuracy of the gripper is 3.0 μm, and it can activate about 50 Hz. The robot has four permanent magnets for positioning, and other four permanent magnets control the robot from the bottom of the micro-fluidic chip. The robot is made very thin and small to allow maneuverability in a micro-fluidic chip. We succeeded in high-power handling and cutting of a cell using this micro-robot.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907409
DO - 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907409
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:84929191796
SP - 3795
EP - 3800
JO - Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
JF - Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
SN - 1050-4729
M1 - 6907409
T2 - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2014
Y2 - 31 May 2014 through 7 June 2014
ER -