Microrobot Swarms - Mobile microrobots, which can navigate, sense, and interact with their environment, could potentially revolutionize biomedicine and environmental remediation. Many self-organizing microrobot collectives have been developed to overcome inherent limits in actuation, sensing, and manipulation of individual microrobots; however, microrobot swarms that exploit agent heterogeneity, reconfiguration, and the surrounding environment to transition between different collective behaviors that enable the collective to move through complex settings, manipulate objects, and alter the group’s global mechanical properties are almost completely unexplored. In the SAM Lab, we are developing the next generation of microrobot swarms that are controlled through magnetics, acoustics, optics, and electrohydrodynamics. Take a click on our project page image for more information on our past / ongoing projects.