TouchLab Research

A cogwheel microrobot trapped using OET with a complementary light pattern. (right) Magnitude of the electric field gradient around the microrobot and light pattern.

Autonomous optoelectronic microrobots

Triptych of false colour images of a tissue section computed from a Fourier ptychographic microscopy image series. Left panel shows conventional brightfield micrograph and centre and right panels show and high resolution reconstructed amplitude and phase

Fourier ptychographic microscopy

Raw light field micrograph of C.elegans.

Light field microscopy

Composite DIC and fluorescence micrograph showing contact between two C.elegans specimens. The two red objects in the tail of the nematode on the right are gentle touch neurons involved in mechanosensation.

Biomechanics and the neurobiology of touch

Images of sections from healthy (left) and cancerous (right) liver tissue. Lowest image in each stack is the tissue imaged before staining, the centre image shows the same tissue section after H&E staining and the top image is a map of the elastic modulus

Topographic imaging and force-based sensing using AFM