Antoine Barbot received a Ph.D in 2016 for his work on mobile magnetic microrobot inside microfluidic chip made C2N-CNRS in Paris.

He then started a postdoctoral position at Imperial College London where he focused on microrobotic applied to non-invasive surgery. He particularly developed floating magnetic microrobot for flexible microelectronic assembly as well as micropneumatic and microfluidic actuators embedded at a capillary tip. Since 2020, he is CNRS researcher at FEMTO-ST institute in Besançon, France. He is focusing on the use of the capillary forces toward the development of compact micromecanism.