Investigation space: Manipulating and controlling things on a small scale (10 um to 1000u m)

what you're aiming to do (which can evolve)?

background and prior art for the project

Programmable material

• Modular Robots Xerox PARC
• Self folding chain of programmable matter
• Momentum driven modular robots
• Growing machines

Digital Materials

• Electronic Digital Materials
• Bitblox: Printable digital materials for electromechanical machines
• TUNABLE DIGITAL MATERIAL PROPERTIES FOR 3D VOXEL PRINTERS

Micro-robotic actuators

• A Review of Actuation and Power Electronics Options for Flapping-Wing Robotic Insects

how you'll evaluate progress

a timeline for doing it over the semester

Progress

For continued advances at the architectural level, mechanical programmability of components may also be needed. dielectrophoresis, or the net force experienced by a neutral dielectric object in a nonuniform electric field. Pohl's work on Dielectrophoresis -- http://scitation.aip.org/docserver/fulltext/aip/journal/jap/29/8/1.1723398.pdf?expires=1462736853&id=id&accname=2106337&checksum=4044F0C061DCC2C497A9FC8BC9177469