Objects in an acoustic field are subjected to acoustic radiation forces, which depend on the objects' scattering behaviour and becomes comparable to the objects' weight for sizes smaller than a few millimeters. This led to manipulation techniques with ultrasonic waves in fluids. In current acoustic levitators, naturally asymmetric objects undergo unwanted spin and rigid-body oscillations. We developed a design of an acoustic manipulator with the ability to levitate and tweeze in vertical and horizontal directions, respectively. This is realised, using three separate transducer arrays and a dis-cretized, reflective floor, inspired by the MIT inForm machine. The floor is made of nine movable pins to change the surface topography and, consequently, manipulate the acoustic field. In this study, we implemented square, staircase, and flat surface configurations to apply pre-defined acoustic hol-ograms for manipulating levitated objects. The two side arrays generate a strong horizontal trap for holding the objects stably at a point where the acoustic radiation force is near zero. The top array and the adjustable floor generate a radiation force as large as an object's weight at the point of levitation, indicated by its levitation height. The object responds to the change of pins by altering its original position in the chamber. Preliminary results obtained at a transducer driving frequency of 40 kHz indicate that an asymmetric object such as a Bee's wing can be levitated stably for more than half an hour with minimal response to external disturbances, and without using phased-array technique. Owing to acoustic radiation force, the measurements are contactless and potentially non-invasive or minimally invasive, dependent on the object. The suggested device design can be potentially employed in the study of delicate biological samples including insects' appendages, such as wings, legs or other filigree structures such as electronic components, wires or MEMS with desirable boundary conditions
