Light robotics: new micro-drones powered by light

Jesper Glückstad

doi:10.1117/12.2610754

2 March 2022 Light robotics: new micro-drones powered by light

Jesper Glückstad

Proceedings Volume 12017, Complex Light and Optical Forces XVI; 120170C (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2610754
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2022, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We have promoted the idea of fabricating a new class of light-actuated microstructures and pioneered their use for so-called Light Robotics (light-driven micro-robotics). A strong scientific desire is to be able to combine advanced topology optimisation, microfabrication, surface functionalization and spatio-temporal light manipulation in full 3D to demonstrate the structure-mediated micro-to-nano coupling paradigm for controlled operation of robotic tools overcoming the diffraction limit while still being optically manoeuvrable and observable. Usually the 3D fabrication of these tiny vehicles for Light Robotics has been based on two-photon photopolymerization. This is inherently a slow, tedious and equipment expensive process leading to relatively soft microscopic polymer-based tools. We will demonstrate a radically different fabrication approach that can lead to much more rigid and useful tools for future Light Robotics undertakings.

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Jesper Glückstad "Light robotics: new micro-drones powered by light", Proc. SPIE 12017, Complex Light and Optical Forces XVI, 120170C (2 March 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2610754

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