About the Authors

Ali Sadeghi

ali.sadeghi@iit.it (AS); barbara.mazzolai@iit.it (BM)

Affiliation Center for Micro-BioRobotics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Pontedera, Italy

Alice Tonazzini

Affiliations Center for Micro-BioRobotics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Pontedera, Italy, The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pontedera, Italy

Liyana Popova

Affiliations Center for Micro-BioRobotics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Pontedera, Italy, The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pontedera, Italy

Barbara Mazzolai

ali.sadeghi@iit.it (AS); barbara.mazzolai@iit.it (BM)

Affiliation Center for Micro-BioRobotics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Pontedera, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS AT. Performed the experiments: AS AT. Analyzed the data: AS AT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AS. Wrote the paper: AS AT LP BM. Design and development of robotic platform: AS.