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Special issue on Magnetic Microrobots, guest edited by Dr. Mariana Medina-Sánchez (Institute for Integrative Nanosciences, Leibniz IFW Dresden, Germany) to be published in Micromachines Journal.
Research Topic on Micro Robotic Sensing and Control for Minimally Invasive Medicine in Frontiers in Robotics and AI (open access), guest edited by Ahmet Fatih Tabak (Kadir Has University, Turkey), Guillermo Javier Amador (Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands), Byung-Wook Park (Youngstown State University, USA).
Research Topic on Soft Robotics at Small Scales: From Materials to Robotic Functionalities in Frontiers in Robotics and AI (open access), guest edited by Stefano Palagi (IIT, Italy), Pierre Lambert (ULB, Belgium), Maria Guix (IBEC, Spain) and Li Zhang (CUHK, China).
Cyborg and Bionic Systems Journal is planning a special issue on Micro/Nano-Manipulation and Bio Assembler, guest edited by Prof. Dr. Tatsuo Arai, Prof. Sinan Haliyo and Prof. Dr. Masaru Kojima. More information here.
Open position: Assistant Professor in all fields of electrical engineering and related interdisciplinary topics, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, USA.
Open position: Postdoctoral Associate in Microrobotics/Micromotors and Bioengineering Research, University of Delaware, USA.
First “Nature Conference on Microrobots and Nanorobots for Biotechnology”, May 25-28, 2021, Dresden, Germany (postponed from 2020), organized by Prof. Oliver Schmidt, a member of MARSS Steering Committee.
The 10th Asia-Pacific Conference of Transducers and Micro-Nano Technology (APCOT 2022), May 29 – June 1, 2022 in Shanghai, China (postponed from 2020), organized by Prof. Tie Li, a member of MARSS Steering Committee, and Prof. Yuelin Wang, a member of MARSS Academic Advisory Board.
Guinness World Record: Stardust Odyssey – Smallest 3D stop-motion animation character (300µm) filmed in an SEM. A coproduction between FEMTO-ST, ULB, and DARROWAN PROD. More infos here.