{"id":150436,"date":"2022-11-17T16:24:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T22:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/3d-printing-microrobots-with-multiple-component-modules-inside-a-microfluidic-chip"},"modified":"2022-11-17T16:24:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T22:24:18","slug":"3d-printing-microrobots-with-multiple-component-modules-inside-a-microfluidic-chip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/3d-printing-microrobots-with-multiple-component-modules-inside-a-microfluidic-chip","title":{"rendered":"3D-printing microrobots with multiple component modules inside a microfluidic chip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nH6qKOW0kPA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scientists from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Osaka University introduced a method for manufacturing complex microrobots driven by chemical energy using in situ integration. By 3D-printing and assembling the mechanical structures and actuators of microrobots inside a microfluidic chip, the resulting microrobots were able to perform desired functions, like moving or grasping. This work may help realize the vision of microsurgery performed by autonomous robots.<\/p>\n<p>As medical technology advances, increasingly complicated surgeries that were once considered impossible have become reality. However, we are still far away from a promised future in which microrobots coursing through a patient\u2019s body can perform procedures, such as microsurgery or cancer cell elimination.<\/p>\n<p>Although nanotech methods have already mastered the art of producing <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/tiny+structures\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">tiny structures<\/a>, it remains a challenge to manipulate and assemble these constituent parts into functional complex robots, especially when trying to produce them at a mass scale. As a result, the assembly, integration and reconfiguration of tiny mechanical components, and especially movable actuators driven by <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/chemical+energy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical energy<\/a>, remains a difficult and time-consuming process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Osaka University introduced a method for manufacturing complex microrobots driven by chemical energy using in situ integration. By 3D-printing and assembling the mechanical structures and actuators of microrobots inside a microfluidic chip, the resulting microrobots were able to perform desired functions, like moving or grasping. This work [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,19,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-nanotechnology","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}