3D Micro/Nanoprinted Soft Robots: From Super Mario Bros. to Endovascular Surgery

During former President Barack Obama’s 2013 State of the Union Address, he remarked on the potential for additive manufacturing—or colloquially, “three-dimensional (3D) printing”—“to revolutionize the way we make almost everything.” Despite this potential, progress has been impeded by broad challenges associated with 3D printing technologies at smaller length scales. Recent breakthroughs in 3D micro/nanoprinting, however, hold unique promise to overcome past barriers and enable new frontiers for fundamental and applied research. In this meeting, Prof. Ryan D. Sochol will discuss how his Bioinspired Advanced Manufacturing (BAM) Laboratory is leveraging “Two-Photon Direct Laser Writing”—an additive manufacturing technique with printing resolutions down to the 100 nanometer range—for emerging biomedical applications, including soft microrobotic surgical instruments for minimally invasive interventions.
Speaker(s): Ryan D. Sochol, Ph.D
Agenda:
6:50 – 7 PM: Registration
7-8 PM: Talk and Q&A
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/498436