Myungjin Park

Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology

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Myungjin Park is pioneering the next generation of soft and miniature robots, with a focus on bio-inspired adhesion, droplet manipulation, and magnetic navigation. His most cited work introduces a stiffness-tunable soft adhesive robot inspired by the velvet worm, enabling delicate grasping of wrinkled and soft biological surfaces—a critical capability for minimally invasive medical procedures. With 46 citations, this work addresses a key challenge in remote-controlled soft robotics. Park also advances droplet-based robotics, demonstrating individual and collective manipulation of multifunctional bimodal droplets in three dimensions (33 citations), overcoming the limitations of 2D control for applications in lab-on-a-chip and drug delivery. Additionally, he has developed an automatic navigation scheme for microrobots using a magnetic potential field through a Field Free Point (FFP), offering a precise and safe actuation method for biomedical tasks. His research, published in 2024, is already shaping the future of soft, controllable micro-robotic systems for real-world biological and medical applications.