Usually created from highly compliant, often bio-inspired materials, soft microrobots occupy a fascinating sub-field of robotics. With their flexibility and adaptability, they find deployment in an ...

Reconfigurable structures that can repeatedly change their three-dimensional shape without manual intervention represent a long-standing goal in microscale engineering. A new origami-inspired ...

The integration of graphene into organic films is an effective strategy for creating nimble electrical microactuators. Electrical microactuators have particularly promising applications in biology, ...

Using a new precision bonding process they developed, Penn State researchers have designed and fabricated tiny new piezoelectric microactuators -- the largest only a hair's breadth wide -- based on ...

Fabrication of a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) with an integrated micromirror. A) FPCB is attached to a glass substrate using SU-8 as temporary adhesive. B) 3D structures are 3D printed ...