Sumit Mohanty
RESEARCH PROFILE
My research aims at bridging the length gap in small-scale robotics from enabling physical intelligence in centimeter-scale soft robots, to contactless actuation of microrobots. I envision collaborative deployment of these robots to remotely address applications such as targeted clinical therapy, inspection of disaster sites and environmental remediation. With a doctoral background in microfabrication, I have developed microrobots that move under the influence of magnetic and acoustic fields, enabling their motion in such remote environments. Currently, I focus on development of centimeter-scale soft robots with embodied intelligence that allows them decision-making and sensing abilities without requiring external programmable hardware used in conventional robots. My broad research interests encompass themes like rapid prototyping, biomimetic and metamaterial-inspired design, microfluidics, acoustic tweezers, surgical robotics.
Fail often, fail spectacularly.
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
I am a postdoctoral researcher in the soft robotic matter group at AMOLF, the Netherlands, working on development of acoustically- and pneumatically powered soft robots. I received a PhD from University of Twente, the Netherlands, where I worked on wireless actuation of microrobots. Prior to my doctoral study, I have been a visiting researcher at ETH Zurich, Switzerland and Max Planck institute for intelligent systems, Germany, with research focus on microfabrication and contactless manipulation technologies. I hold a master's degree in nanotechnology from KTH royal institute of technology, Sweden, and a bachelor's degree in instrumentation engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India, respectively. My current research interest is to develop specialized meso-scale soft robots that combine benefits of fast actuation at micro-scale and ease of handling at macro-scale.
Recent Publications
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Sumit Mohanty,Yu-Hsiang Lin,Aniruddha Paul,Martin R.P. van den Broek,Sarthak Misra
Acoustically Actuated Flow in Microrobots Powered by Axisymmetric Resonant Bubbles
Advanced Intelligent Systems (2024) -
Juan J. Huaroto,Luigi Capuano,Mert Kaya,Ihar Hlukhau,Franck Assayag,Sumit Mohanty,Gert Willem Römer,Sarthak Misra
Two-photon microscopy for microrobotics
PLoS ONE (2023) -
Filip Suligoj,Christoff M. Heunis,Sumit Mohanty,Sarthak Misra
Intravascular Tracking of Micro-Agents Using Medical Ultrasound
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (2022) -
Sumit Mohanty,Aniruddha Paul,Pedro M. Matos,Jiena Zhang,Jakub Sikorski,Sarthak Misra
CeFlowBot
Small (2022) -
Sumit Mohanty,Robbert Jan Fidder,Pedro M. Matos,Christoff M. Heunis,Mert Kaya,Nathan Blanken,Sarthak Misra
SonoTweezer
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control (2022)
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