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  • Self-propelled motors operating at the micro- or nanoscale can be powered by catalytic reactions and show appealing potential in robotic applications. Brooks et al. describe how the motions of platinum spinners in hydrogen peroxide solutions can be rationally designed by controlling particle shape.

    • Ada M. Brooks
    • Mykola Tasinkevych
    • Kyle J. M. Bishop
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 10, P: 1-9

  • Spontaneous low-frequency oscillations, which are a feature of biological systems, are challenging to engineer into microrobotic systems. The authors discover a mechanism for asymmetry-induced order and realise electrical and mechanical oscillations in a particle collective to power a microrobotic arm.

    • Jing Fan Yang
    • Thomas A. Berrueta
    • Michael S. Strano
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 13, P: 1-11

  • Tiny devices have been developed that can act as the legs of laser-controlled microrobots. The compatibility of these devices with microelectronics systems suggests a path to the mass manufacture of autonomous microrobots.

    • Ada M. Brooks
    • Michael S. Strano
    News & Views
    Nature
    Volume: 584, P: 530-531

  • The development of functional microrobots calls for new strategies to design locomotion facilitating navigation through complex environments. Here, Lee et al. show how to realize and program helical motion in three dimensions using patchy microspheres under an alternating current electric field.

    • Jin Gyun Lee
    • Ada M. Brooks
    • Bhuvnesh Bharti
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 10, P: 1-8

  • This Perspective provides an overview on the emergent field of colloidal robotics, discussing recent developments on colloidal and micrometre-sized particles that can perform functions such as sensing, communication, computation and motion.

    • Albert Tianxiang Liu
    • Marek Hempel
    • Michael S. Strano
    Reviews
    Nature Materials
    Volume: 22, P: 1453-1462