VISE affiliates awarded 3-Year NSF Grant
VISE affiliates Nabil Simaan (ARMA lab) and Dr. Karen Joos (Ophthalmology) were recently awarded a 3-year NSF grant entitled “Continuum Robots for Multi-Scale Manipulation.”
This project is designed to demonstrate a new class of continuum robots capable of multi-scale manipulation; that is, the ability to achieve large motion with millimetric precision and to achieve small motion with micrometer-scale precision. In contrast, existing robots are typically designed to function properly only at a single functional length scale. The envisioned class of robots will provide micro-precision while traversing macroscale sinuous pathways to access the operational site. Potential benefits include precise tissue reconstruction and complete surgical eradication of tumors. Such robots will also enable new abilities for micro-manufacturing, leading to greatly improved quality-control inspection methods for micro-fluidic and microelectromechanical devices mass-manufactured on large substrates.
To learn more: Continuum Robots for Multi-Scale Manipulation