A new endoscopic microcapsule robot using beetle inspired microfibrillar adhesives

IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, AIM

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 551-557

  Cheung, Eugene ^a   Karagozler, Mustafa Emre ^a   Park, Sukho ^b   Kim, Byungkyu ^b   Sitti, Metin ^a,c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^c NanoRobotics Lab   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIQUID ADHESION; MICROCAPSULE ROBOTS; MOLECULAR ADHESION; PROTOTYPE ROBOT;

ADHESIVES; DISEASES; ENDOSCOPY; GASTROENTEROLOGY; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; ROBOTICS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

ROBOTS;

EID: 27644527871     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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