Overview
- Summarizes the technological basis and issues for the nascent field of microscale soft robotics, surveys its research progress, and presents the outlook for its future development
- Emphasizes and clarifies the motivations for microscale soft robots and devices, as well as their corresponding enabling technologies
- Explores the applications of microscale soft robots and devices as minimally invasive and biomimetic medical devices
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
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Book Title: Microscale Soft Robotics
Book Subtitle: Motivations, Progress, and Outlook
Authors: Jaeyoun (Jay) Kim
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50286-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-50285-4Published: 27 December 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50286-1Published: 20 December 2016
Series ISSN: 2191-530X
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5318
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 107
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 70 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nanotechnology and Microengineering, Robotics and Automation, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering