A Comprehensive Survey on Microgrippers Design: Mechanical Structure

TL;DR: A review of electrothermal micro-actuators and applications is presented in this paper, where the three main configurations of electro-thermal actuators are discussed: hot-and-cold-arm, chevron, and bimorph.

TL;DR: This paper is concentrated on reviewing the state-of-the-art research on complaint micro-/nano-positioning stage design in recent years and involves the major processes and components for designing a compliant positioning stage, e.g., actuator selection, stroke amplifier design, connecting scheme of the multi-DOF stage and structure optimization.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the recent advances on performance indices, classification, structural composition, optimization and modeling method, and control of PEACM and provided a guideline on further development of the micro gripper.

TL;DR: This work used micro-electro mechanical systems (MEMS) to develop a rapid platform for monitoring bio/chemical interactions of bio macromolecules, e.g. DNA, using their mechanical properties and allowed monitoring effects of multiple solutions on the same macromolescule bundle without compromising the reproducibility.

TL;DR: A state space representation is developed to couple both the dynamics of the actuation and sensing subsystems of the gripper through the stiffness of the manipulated object, and is compared with experimental approaches.

TL;DR: In this article, a mechanically actuated micro-electro-mechanical-systems (MEMS) microtweezer is presented, attached to a tether-cable system packaged within a stainless steel luer needle.

TL;DR: A polymer sensorised microgripping tool for micromanipulation is presented and a further miniaturised unsensorised microGripper based on the same actuation principle and fabrication process (but less than half the size) was fabricated to demonstrate the possibility of further downscaling.