UofT team wins second place in the 2018 Mobile Microrobotics Challenge

Prof. Eric Diller’s students, Christopher Lucasius and Lucas Botelho, pose with their microrobotics system, which won second place in the “Autonomous Manipulation and Accuracy Challenge” event at the Mobile Microrobotics Challenge. Photo courtesy Microrobotics Lab.

The Microrobotics Lab team of undergraduate students Christopher Lucasius (EngSci 4th year), York Dong (Mech 4th year) and Lucas Botelho (Mech 4th year) won second place in the “Autonomous Manipulation and Accuracy Challenge” event at the 2018 Mobile Microrobotics Challenge.

This challenging series of tasks had the team design and manufacture microrobots up to 500 micrometers in length (about the size of a grain of salt) for both autonomous manipulation and microassembly in arenas less than 3 mm long.

The team was supervised by Prof. Eric Diller, along with graduate students Jiachen Zhang and Mohammad Salehizadeh and support from Omid Youssefi and Tianqi Xu.