Driving of flagellated micro-gel robot by using light-scanning system

We propose a micro-gel robot which has a flagellar-like structure. An actuator of microrobot is made of a thermoresponsive hydrogel, and we mix the actuator with CNTs so that we can drive them by irradiating light. We designed microrobots considering Reynolds number and fabricated them. Moreover, we actuated microrobots and succeeded in driving them and realizing a propulsion.