Past Projects
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Micromechanical Flying Insect (1998-2008)
The goal of this project is to develop an autonomous 0.1 gram flying
robot using insect-inspired wing kinematics. |

MilliRobot Prototyping using Composite Fiber Toolkits (2000-2007)
We developed a low cost (<$1000)) desktop factory which will allow
users to build millirobots from a kit of components.
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Tele-Taction
and
Tactile
Sensing
(1982-2002)
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MicroGlider
Project
(2004-2005)
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Desktop rapid prototyping
millirobots (2000-2008)
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Dextrous manipulation and
microassembly
Eiji
Shimada's microassembly page
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Manipulation
of microparts using force controlled pushing (1998)
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Credit card robot
(1995)
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Credit card robot: squeeze film levitated, magnetically driven.(1992) |

Maze solving by paramecia (1990)
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Paramecia
Control
(1991)
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Dextrous
Manipulation, etc. from '80s
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Dynamic modelling of fastener insertion (1991)
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| Millirobotics for
Minimally-Invasive surgery (1994-2004) |
 
Acrobot project 1988-1993. See e.g.
``Control of a Two-Link Robot to Achieve Sliding and Hopping Gaits'',
IEEE ICRA 1992.
open loop .wmv
sim .wmv
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Early tactile sensing (1987)
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