Design and build of small-scale magnetic soft-bodied robots with multimodal locomotion

Z Ren, M Sitti - Nature protocols, 2024 - nature.com
Small-scale magnetic soft-bodied robots can be designed to operate based on different
locomotion modes to navigate and function inside unstructured, confined and varying …

[HTML][HTML] Driving modes and characteristics of biomedical micro-robots

L Huang, Y Pan, M Wang, L Ren - Engineered Regeneration, 2023 - Elsevier
Micro-robots (MRs) are miniature machines with dimensions smaller than 1 mm and have
semi-or fully-autonomous capabilities, including sensing, decision-making, and performing …

Medical Microrobots

V Iacovacci, E Diller, D Ahmed… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Scientists around the world have long aimed to produce miniature robots that can be
controlled inside the human body to aid doctors in identifying and treating diseases. Such …

A review of soft microrobots: Material, fabrication, and actuation

M Ye, Y Zhou, H Zhao, Z Wang… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Microrobots have shown great potential in many applications, such as non‐invasive surgery,
tissue engineering, precision medicine, and environmental remediation. Within the past …

Bio-inspired micro-and nanorobotics driven by magnetic field

AV Chesnitskiy, AE Gayduk, VA Seleznev, VY Prinz - Materials, 2022 - mdpi.com
In recent years, there has been explosive growth in the number of investigations devoted to
the development and study of biomimetic micro-and nanorobots. The present review is …

[HTML][HTML] Hard magnetics and soft materials—a synergy

P Narayanan, R Pramanik… - Smart Materials and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Hard-magnetic soft materials (hMSMs) are smart composites that consist of a mechanically
soft polymer matrix impregnated with mechanically hard magnetic filler particles. This dual …

Photothermally modulated magnetic nanochains as swarm nanorobotics for microreaction control

Y Liao, D Liu, B Wang, Z Wu, M Ni… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The intensification of microreactions is important for biological and chemical reactions with
microliter volumes as reaction units, including microliter bioassay or protein synthesis. At the …

Multi‐dimensional micro/nanorobots with collective behaviors

B Wang, Y Lu - SmartMat, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, the collective behavior of micro/nanorobots has shown unprecedented potential in
biomedicine and environmental remediation. Collective behavior can work more efficiently …

A review of magnetically driven swimming microrobots: Material selection, structure design, control method, and applications

H Liu, Q Guo, W Wang, T Yu, Z Yuan, Z Ge… - Reviews on Advanced …, 2023 - degruyter.com
Magnetically driven swimming microrobot is a typical one in the family of microrobots and
they can achieve navigation and manipulation in low Reynolds number biomedical …

Self-deploying origami magnetic membranes with flexible sensors for narrow liquid channels

P Zhou, X Zhang, Y Li, M Ren, H Xiang… - Smart Materials and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Miniaturized magnetic membranes have garnered substantial attention in the biomedical
field due to their biocompatibility and mechanical properties in recent years. In this study, we …