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Motivations

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Microscale robots have been around for decades. Soft robots are relatively new to robotics but they have also been on the road to secure their position in the field for at least a decade (Rus and Tolley, Nature 521:467–475, 2015). So, the fusion of the two in recent years, which gave birth to microscale soft robotics, may seem logical and even inevitable (Whitesides, Lab Chip 11:191–193, 2011). In the world of technology, however, a mere co-existence of two related fields doesn’t necessarily guarantee their marriage. There must be compelling reasons, or motivations, for the researchers to invest their time and effort.

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Kim, J.(. (2017). Motivations. In: Microscale Soft Robotics. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50286-1_2

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