. These two components are fabricated monolithically from the same sheet of conductive polysilicon, and receive a common power and control signal through a capacitive coupling with an underlying electrical grid. More information can be found at: BR Donald, C. Levey, C. McGray, I, Paprotny, and D. Rus. “An Untethered, Electrostatic, Globally-Controllable MEMS Micro-Robot,” Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, 2006; 15(1):1-15.

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area. Compliance, as well a motion planning control strategy are used to ensure high docking accuracy. All robots are controlled using a single global control signal, provided through the operating environment. More information can be found here: www.cs.duke.edu [1] BR Donald, CG Levey and I. Paprotny. “Planar Microassembly by Parallel Actuation of MEMS Microrobots.” Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems,2008 (Accepted; In press).

producing tubes with external diameters ranging between 30 to 200 microns and internal diameters between 20 and 100 microns. The goal of the university research team was to invent a blood-sampling device using BioMEMS (biological microelectromechanical systems) technology featuring an extremely fine tube, and a design that mimics the blood aspiration mechanism of a female mosquito. This new needle technology makes it possible to collect less than 1 micro liter of blood when checking blood …

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