Within the last couple of decades, there has been increasing research into the use of mobile robots for gas sensing applications. This has led to many different branches of research, most notably on the topics of gas distribution mapping and source localization. This paper aims to provide an up to date and comprehensive overview of the research on these topics for both controlled and uncontrolled environments with ground‐based or aerial robots. To complement other review papers, a greater focus is placed on recent probabilistic algorithms developed for both single robot and multirobot applications.

Advances in additive manufacturing have resulted in significant growth of such materials, including the medical sector. It is particularly applicable to manufacture of prosthetics and implants, where design freedoms and complex geometries afforded by additive manufacturing are especially suited to such products. With this growth it is timely to consider approaches to optimization for both efficiency and performance. In this work a design of experiments approach was used to quantify the effects of build parameters on performance and efficiency outputs. This approach could prove invaluable to designers for both cost and performance optimization, applicable to both prototype and part production

Microgrippers are commonly used for micromanipulation of micro-objects from 1 to 100 µm and attain features of reliable accuracy, low cost, wide jaw aperture and variable applied force. This paper aim is to review the design of different microgrippers which can manipulate and assemble µ-wire to PCB connectors. A review was conducted on microgrippers’ technologies, comparing fundamental components of structure and actuators’ types, which determined the most suitable design for the required micromanipulation task. Various microgrippers’ design was explored to examine the suitability and the execution of requirements needed for successful micromanipulation.