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: The findings of this patents review confirm the relevance of the nanomanipulation of objects in 3D system coupled with real time imaging having higher resolution in comparison with the standard manipulators including AFM, TEM, STM, SEM or NSOM.

TL;DR: A position and force switching control scheme is implemented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the microgripper system for grasp-hold-release operation of a copper wire of 300-μm diameter.

TL;DR: The different techniques available to manipulate and integrate biological materials in a controlled manner either by sliding them along a surface, by grapping them and moving them to a new position (3-D manipulation), or by manipulating and relocating them applying external forces are reviewed.