This is cool:
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(especially after 50secs into the video)
Cheers
Klaus
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Magnetically Actuated Micro-Robots for Advanced Manipulation
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On a sunny day (Tue, 22 Apr 2014 13:53:19 -0700 (PDT)) it happened Klaus Kragelund wrote in :
Dud, I did that sort of game as a kid with a magenet under the table. Do they get millions for that?
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That was cool. It's impressive they get enough force from PCB printed coils. The SRI International website says it's patented, but I couldn't find it.
Here's a related blast-from-the-past: Octomag, ETH Switzerland, controls fully untethered microrobot for eye surgery
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Cheers, James Arthur
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Dug a bit further... Levitated micro-manipulator system - US 8,686,602 B2 Levitated micro-manipulator system - US 8,593,016 B2
Cheers, James Arthur