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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 16.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2014 Feb;61(2):513–521. doi: 10.1109/TBME.2013.2283369

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Biopsy using a hierarchical microrobot: (a) magnetically actuated capsule robot next to (b) the distributed self-folding μ-grippers. The developed magnetic capsule robot carries and releases untethered μ-grippers, and retrieves the tissue samples collected by μ-grippers. The arrow points out semitransparent tissue.