The first wireless camera pills created a revolutionary new perspective for engineers and
physicians, demonstrating for the first time the feasibility of achieving medical objectives …

Laparoscopy is an established method for the treatment of numerous surgical conditions.
Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) is a novel surgical technique that …

Medical procedures often involve a device moving through a natural lumen of the human
body (eg, intestines, blood vessels). However, with existing technology, it is difficult …

Swallowable capsule robots which travel in body cavities to implement drug delivery,
minimally invasive surgery, and diagnosis have provided great potential for medical …

Small‐scale wireless magnetic robots and devices offer an effective solution to operations in
hard‐to‐reach and high‐risk enclosed places, such as inside the human body, nuclear …

The current smallest self-contained modular robot uses a shape memory alloy, which is
inherently inefficient, slow and difficult to control. We present the design, fabrication and …

Capsule endoscopy allows clinicians to wirelessly examine the small intestine using a
capsule equipped with a miniscule camera. However, it has intrinsic limitations such as a …

The field of Medical Capsule Robots (MCRs) is gaining momentum in the robotics
community, with applications spanning from abdominal surgery to gastrointestinal (GI) …

As wireless capsule endoscope (WCE) technology has advanced, various studies were
published on WCEs with functional modules for the diagnosis and treatment of problems in …

A wealth of current research in microengineering aims at fabricating devices of increasing
complexity, notably by (self-) assembling elementary components into heterogeneous …