Miniature Mobile Robots Down to Micron Scale

Miniature mobile robots have the unique capability of accessing to small spaces and scales directly. Due to their small size and small scale physics and dynamics, they could be agile and portable, and could be inexpensive and in large numbers if they are mass produced. Different scale miniature robots with various locomotion capabilities are proposed in this study. Network or swarm of these miniature mobile robots would have applications in the fields of mobile sensor networks, environmental monitoring, health-care, inspection and maintenance, space, security, entertainment, and education.