SLIMM club: Student-led Innovations in Medical Microrobotics
- Volunteer group of undergraduate students who want to get involved in microrobotics research
- Student-led, with input and guidance from Medical Microrobotics Research team
- Similar to student design teams, but with guidance from and direct collaboration with a research lab
Purpose:
- Opportunity to learn about pressing issues and challenges in medical microrobotics
- Explore new applications of microrobots for biomedical applications
- Training in literature search modelling and hands-on skills in wet lab environment, experimental design, generation of data, critical analysis of data
- Support sustainable project viability beyond one term by having a collaborative team, rather than “one-term-only” efforts by individual students
- No deliverables or credits are intended: the idea is to allow brainstorming and curiosity-driven, explorative research without pressure to produce results
- Innovation is the driving force, asking “why not” and designing experiments to answer that question.
Medical Microrobotics Lab 