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News


- "Design and manufacturing of a controllable miniature flapping wing robotic platform," by V. Arabagi, L. Hines, and M. Sitti was published in The International Journal of Robotics Research in May 2012. link

- "Modeling of Conductive Atomic Force Microscope Probes for Scanning Tunneling Microscope Operation," by O. Ozcan and M. Sitti was published in Micro/Nano-Letters in April 2012. link

- "Two Dimensional Autonomous Micro-Particle Manipulation Strategies for Magnetic Micro-Robots in Fluidic Environments" by C. Pawashe, S. Floyd, E. Diller, and M. Sitti was published in IEEE Trans. on Robotics in April 2012. link

- Onur Ozcan received his PhD degree in March 2012 and is now a post-doc at Harvard, Wyss Institute.

- Dr. Sitti has become the active Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Micro-Bio Robotics starting from February 2012.

- "Remotely Addressable Magnetic Composite Micropumps" paper by Eric Diller and Shuhei Miyashita was published RSC Advances in April 2012. link

- Yigit Menguc received his PhD degree in January 2012 and is now a post-doc at Harvard, Wyss Institute.

- Our alumnus Dr. Burak Aksak became an assistant professor at Texas Tech starting from January 2012.

- "Gecko Inspired Controllable Adhesive Structures Applied to Micromanipulation" by Yigit Menguc and our collaborators at UIUC was published in Advanced Functional Materials (DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201101783) in Jan. 2012. link

- "Design and Rolling Locomotion of a Magnetically Actuated Soft Capsule Endoscope" by Sehyuk Yim and ''Control of Multiple Heterogeneous Magnetic Micro-Robots in Two Dimensions'' by Eric Diller, Chytra Pawashe and Steve Floyd link were published in IEEE Trans. on Robotics in Feb. 2012.

- Our alumnus Dr. Seok Kim became an assistant professor at UIUC starting from August 2011.

- Slava Arabagi received his PhD degree in August 2011 and is now a post-doc at Harvard, Children's Hospital.

- "Design of a Miniature Integrated Multi-Modal Jumping and Gliding Robot" by Matthew Woodward was the finalist for the JTCF Novel Technology Paper Award in the IEEE/RSJ Intelligent Robots and Systems Conference (IROS'11), San Francisco (5 papers selected out of about 2000 submitted papers).

- We received an NSF-CMMI grant on 'Contact Self-Cleaning Mechanics of Repeatable Fibrillar Adhesives' in Sept. 2011.

- We received an NSF-CPS Medium grant on 'Dense Networks of Bacteria Propelled Micro-Robotic Swarms' in Sept. 2011.

- Dr. Sitti was appointed as Professor of Mechanical Engineering in July 2011.

- We partnered with our alumnus Dr. Steven Floyd at Arete Associates and received an STTR Phase I grant from ONR on 'Desktop Manufacturing with Micro-robot Swarm' in June 2011.

- Dr. Sitti received the SPIE Nanoengineering Pioneer Award in April 2011.

Welcome to the NanoRobotics Lab

The NanoRobotics Lab's research program is focused on developing new methods to design, manufacture, and control novel and high impact micro/nano-robotic systems in three thrust areas: miniature mobile robots, bio-inspired fibrillar adhesives, and micro/nano-manipulation systems. Our group has had the below significant impacts in these three areas. The first two areas are our major current focus areas.


Impact Area 1: Miniaturization of Mobile Robots


Impact Area 2: Gecko-Inspired Repeatable Adhesives


Impact Area 3: Tip-Based Precision Micro/Nano-Manipulation Systems