{"id":25300,"date":"2014-06-12T16:23:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T02:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=25300"},"modified":"2021-10-29T13:53:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T23:53:31","slug":"microrobotics-team-excels-at-international-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/06\/12\/microrobotics-team-excels-at-international-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Microrobotics team excels at international challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_25305\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25305\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/microrobotics-uh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/microrobotics-uh.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/microrobotics-uh-260x195.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> microrobot assembled tiny glass beads into a mini <abbr>UH<\/abbr>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa&#8217;s<\/a> microrobotics team placed third in the mobility event of the 2014 Mobile Microrobotics Challenge, held in Hong Kong from May 31 to June 2, as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ieee.org\">Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers&#8217;<\/a> International Conference on Robotics and Automation. <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa competed against teams from the U.S., France, Switzerland, Canada and Korea.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Videos:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mnmlab\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> microrobots in action<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa&#8217;s microrobot consists of a small air bubble inside of a microchamber. Light from a laser is used to heat the surface of the microchamber, which generates a force that moves the microrobot around.<\/p>\n<p>The microrobot is smaller than half a millimeter in diameter and can be used to move around objects that are also smaller than a millimeter in size. This is useful for building structures made up of living cells, which can help to grow tissues and organs outside of the human body.<\/p>\n<p>All of the microrobots in the Mobile Microrobotics Challenge were smaller than half a millimeter and operated in miniature arenas under a microscope. The challenge consisted of two events: a mobility event, in which the robots were timed as they moved around various paths in a course, and a micro-assembly challenge, where the robots assembled tiny triangles in a designated area.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;These challenging events really test the intellectual capacity and technological skills of the teams, so this award is a real testament to the M&#257;noa microrobotics team&#8217;s accomplishment,&rdquo; said <strong>Aaron Ohta<\/strong>, an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ee.hawaii.edu\/index.php\">electrical engineering<\/a> associate professor in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eng.hawaii.edu\/\">College of Engineering<\/a>. &ldquo;The <abbr>UH<\/abbr> microrobotics team has historically done well, finishing second in the 2012 and 2011 Mobile Microrobotics Challenges.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa Microrobotics team members are <strong>Wenqi Hu<\/strong>, <strong>Qihui Fan<\/strong>, <strong>Sammy Khamis<\/strong> and <strong>Edward Nerard<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/article.php?aId=6574\">A <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa news release<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa&#8217;s microrobotics team placed third in the mobility event of the 2014 Mobile Microrobotics Challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-25300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25300"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150892,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25300\/revisions\/150892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}