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. 2023 Jan 10;9:1086043. doi: 10.3389/frobt.2022.1086043

FIGURE 3.

FIGURE 3

Overview of the six major categories of micro-robot built to date. (A) Tethered passive micro-tools (Zhang et al., 2020b; Zhang et al., 2020c), (B) Tethered active micro-grippers (Power et al., 2018), (C) Untethered micro-carriers (Chatzipirpiridis et al., 2015a), (D) Untethered micro-grippers (Diller and Sitti, 2014), (E) Self-propelled micro-robots (Beladi-Mousavi et al., 2019), (F) Mobile micro-surgeons (Kobayashi et al., 2018). Panel (A) reproduced from (Zhang et al., 2020b) under the terms of the CC-BY license. Copyright 2020, The Authors, published by Springer Nature. Panel (B) reproduced from (Power et al., 2018) under the terms of the CC-BY license. Copyright 2018, The Authors, published by Wiley. Panel (C) reproduced from (Chatzipirpiridis et al., 2015a) with permission. Copyright 2015, Wiley. Panel (D) reproduced from (Diller and Sitti, 2014) with permission. Copyright 2014, Wiley. Panel (E) reproduced from (Beladi-Mousavi et al., 2019) with permission. Copyright 2019, American Chemical Society. Panel (F) reproduced from (Kobayashi et al., 2018) with permission. Copyright 2019, American Chemical Society.