Autonomous Distributed System For Cooperative Micromanipulation

A micromanipulation system in a plane is described as an example of autonomous distributed micromachines (ADM). We propose and demonstrate a method to obtain macroscopic work out of distributed microactuators fabricated by IC-compatible micromachining. We have previously developed several kinds of microactuator arrays for micromanipulation tasks.

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