Abstract
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning Daily News Daily News-Research findings on robotics are disc ussed in a new report. According to news originating from Pontedera, Italy, by N ewsRx correspondents, research stated, "The development of functional microsyste ms and microrobots that have characterized the last decade is the result of a sy nergistic and effective interaction between the progress of fabrication techniqu es and the increased availability of smart and responsive materials to be employ ed in the latter." Funders for this research include European Union Horizon 2020 Research And Innov ation Program Under The Future And Emerging Technologies Open Grant 5DNANOPRINTI NG; European Union Horizon 2020 Excellent Science Program Under The Erc Starting Grant Celloids. Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from Italian Institute of Te chnology: "Functional structures on the microscale have been relevant for a vast plethora of technologies that find application in different sectors including a utomotive, sensing devices, and consumer electronics, but are now also entering medical clinics. Working on or inside the human body requires increasing complex ity and functionality on an ever-smaller scale, which is becoming possible as a result of emerging technology and smart materials over the past decades. In rece nt years, additive manufacturing has risen to the forefront of this evolution as the most prominent method to fabricate complex 3D structures. In this review, w e discuss the rapid 3D manufacturing techniques that have emerged and how they h ave enabled a great leap in microrobotic applications. The arrival of smart mate rials with inherent functionalities has propelled microrobots to great complexit y and complex applications. We focus on which materials are important for actuat ion and what the possibilities are for supplying the required energy."
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