This paper deals with a historical overview of the activities of the French FEMTO-ST institute
in the field of microrobotic manipulation and assembly. It firstly shows tools developed for …

This paper deals with robotic micro-assembly of silicon micro-objects whose sizes are tens
of micrometers. This production means is one of a more promising approach to realize 3D …

The development of new hybrid microsystems needs new technologies which are able to
perform assembly of small micro-objects. Now, the current micromanipulation technologies …

Micro manipulation tasks with micro tweezers were operated in different configurations. This
paper discusses the main issues of pick and place operations with micro tweezers as …

This paper presents an overview of the French research program PRONOMIA which deals
with new methods for robotic micromanipulation and especially on submerged …

There are great challenges in biological research to study mechanical or chemical
interactions between biological objects and artificial parts, to analyse the biocompatibility of …

Currently microsystems consist of more and more functionalities in even smaller volumes.
Components size has then to be reduced as well, coming through micro-and then …

This chapter presents different microhandling strategies used in liquid and a microassembly
station. It deals with four handling strategies such as the dielectrophoretic gripper, the …

Serial micro-assembly requires high precision robots able to produce translations and
rotations to position and orient objects during assembly. In micro-scale, the translation …

This chapter presents theoretical models of micromanipulation tasks allowing optimizing the
strategies to get precise and reliable operations and taking into account adhesion effects …