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This article introduces and explores the current frontier four-legged (quadruped) and six-legged (hexapod) crawling micro-robots. The performances of various crawling micro-robots are compared, and their driving modes are analyzed. Moreover, the research status of crawling micro-robots is summarized, and the future application prospects and development directions of these robots are put forward.
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Part of the work was funded by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFC0602102), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.61727818 and U20A20213), the Department of Science and Technology of Sichuan Province (No. 2021JDTD0030), AECC Sichuan Gas Turbine Research Establishment (WDZC-2020-3-2), the Chengdu Science and Technology Project (No.2020-GH02-0065-HZ), and the National Science and Technology Major Project (J2019-V-0006-0100).
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Jing Jiang, contributed to the conception of the study. The first draft of the manuscript was written by Mr. Chao Wang and Mr. Hongzu Li. Material preparation, data collection was performed by Mr. Lihao Yang, Mr. Jiale Du, Mr. Peifeng Yu and Mr. Zezhan Zhang. Yi Niu performed the data analyses and made constructive comments by reviewing the manuscript. All authors read and approved the manuscript.
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Wang, C., Li, H., Zhang, Z. et al. Review of Bionic Crawling Micro-Robots. J Intell Robot Syst 105, 56 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-022-01649-6
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