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Journal of Mechanical Engineering ›› 2025, Vol. 61 ›› Issue (3): 178-196.doi: 10.3901/JME.2025.03.178

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Review of Micro-bionic Robots

LUO Zirong, HONG Yang, JIANG Tao, LIN Zening, YANG Yun, ZHU Qunwei   

  1. College of Intelligent Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073
  • Received:2024-02-22 Revised:2024-10-08 Published:2025-03-12

Abstract: As a micro-electromechanical system with a size of centimeters or below, micro-bionic robots have the characteristics of small size, light weight and excellent portability. They are widely used in complex environments such as environmental detection, target search, reconnaissance and strike. In order to enable researchers to understand the research progress of micro-bionic robots, a summary and analysis of relevant literature in the past 15 years are conducted based on the world’s largest abstract and citation database Scopus, providing a visual depiction of the development trends in the field of micro-bionic robots. The general characteristics and research status of micro-bionic robots are summarized from the three key points of the bionic movement form, manufacturing technology and driving technology of micro-bionic robots, supplemented by the introduction of the special research direction of bio-electromechanical hybrid micro robots. The technical bottleneck of the development of micro-bionic robots is fully analyzed, and the development idea of energy-driving-sense-control full flexible integration is put forward, which promotes the innovative development of integrated manufacturing technology. Based on the military and anti-terrorism and riot control application background, the characteristics and advantages of micro-bionic robots are fully analyzed, and the combat application conception with micro-bionic robots as the core is carried out. In addition, the application of micro-bionic robots in civil life is discussed. Finally, the shortcomings and future development of the existing micro-bionic robots are discussed and summarized, which provides a valuable reference for the development of the micro-bionic robots technology and its military application prospect.

Key words: micro-bionic robots, driving technology, manufacturing technology, full flexible integration, military application

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