This is cool:
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(especially after 50secs into the video)
Cheers
Klaus
Magnetically Actuated Micro-Robots for Advanced Manipulation
Apr 22, 2014
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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?
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
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
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