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Contact lab with society

We get our inspiration from MCU movie. We consider that micro-robots may have potential in medical applications such as micro-therapy and targeted drug delivery, but this is an innovative and cutting-edge medical tool. In the future, if it really has the feasibility and significance of the application remains to be proved. If the Chlamydomonas micro-robot is really applied in the future, can the public fully accept this treatment technology? In addition to the medical field, can the Chlamydomonas micro-robots also function in more fields? Guided by the project background, we will integrate feedback step by step during the project development process, promote in-depth investigation, and finally improve and demonstrate the complete meaning of algae micro-robot in society.

1. In the initial stage of the project, we have interviewed three medical research-related scholars and Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Science in order to make the cutting-edge technology of the micro-robots feasible in the future and figure out exactly the practical application of our projects in the future society. After talking with scholars, we got their affirmation of the novelty and application feasibility of our project.

2. After clarifying the feasibility of the project and its significance to the society, we continue to promote the project. In the process, we have had many exchanges with the professors of Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Science, and asked them about problems related to our measurement of Chlamydomonas’s movements. At the same time, we also considered a specific problem: if Chlamydomonas micro-robot is actually implemented in the future, can it be accepted by the public? We conducted a social survey to learn about the public's cognition degree of this technology and their acceptance level of its practical application from both online surveys and offline face-to-face interviews.

Through questionnaires and interviews, we learned that more than half of the people support the development of this technology in medical applications, and more than two-thirds of people can accept this medical technology.

3. During the investigation, some people have expressed the hope to bring such micro robots into other field. We have considered their suggestions carefully and believe that the micro-scale and mobility can give the cyanobacteria micro-robots advantages in many other fields. On the basis of these characteristics, we ask the relevant scholars in the field of microfluidics, physics and environment about their views in the application of micro-nano robots.

Scholars in different fields agree with the innovation of our project, but at the same time they also propose that the application of Chlamydomonas robots in different fields needs to consider its practical role, and to add downstream functional design. After careful consideration, we believe that Chlamydomonas can play a role in different fields, while single motion control cannot fully exert its function. Therefore, we took the advice of experts and selected three specific directions for the following design.