MSRL-Team wins Mobile Microrobotics Challenge at ICRA 2015
The MSRL-Team competed in the Mobile Microrobotics Challenge held at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 26-30, 2015, Seattle, Washington, USA and won first place in the Microassembly Challenge.
The IEEE Robotics & Automations Society (RAS) Micro/Nano Robotics & Automation Technical Committee (MNRA) invited teams to participate in the 2015 Mobile Microrobotics Challenge, in which microrobots on the order of the diameter of a human hair face off in tests of autonomy, accuracy, and assembly.
The MSRL-Team took part in the Microassembly Challenge, where microrobots must assemble multiple microscale components inside a narrow channel in a fixed amount of time. This task simulates anticipated applications of microassembly, including manipulation within a human blood vessel and the assembly of components in nanomanufacturing.