Magnetic actuation methods in bio/soft robotics

N Ebrahimi, C Bi, DJ Cappelleri, G Ciuti… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, magnetism has gained an enormous amount of interest among researchers
for actuating different sizes and types of bio/soft robots, which can be via an electromagnetic …

Magnetic actuation systems for miniature robots: A review

Z Yang, L Zhang - Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A magnetic field, which is transparent and relatively safe to biological tissue, is a powerful
tool for remote actuation and wireless control of magnetic devices. Furthermore, miniature …

Multifunctional surface microrollers for targeted cargo delivery in physiological blood flow

Y Alapan, U Bozuyuk, P Erkoc, AC Karacakol, M Sitti - Science robotics, 2020 - science.org
Mobile microrobots offer great promise for minimally invasive targeted medical theranostic
applications at hard-to-access regions inside the human body. The circulatory system …

Control and autonomy of microrobots: Recent progress and perspective

J Jiang, Z Yang, A Ferreira… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
After decades of development, microrobots have exhibited great application potential in the
biomedical field, such as minimally invasive surgery, drug delivery, and bio‐sensing …

Biohybrid actuators for robotics: A review of devices actuated by living cells

L Ricotti, B Trimmer, AW Feinberg, R Raman… - Science robotics, 2017 - science.org
Actuation is essential for artificial machines to interact with their surrounding environment
and to accomplish the functions for which they are designed. Over the past few decades …

Magnetically actuated microrobots as a platform for stem cell transplantation

S Jeon, S Kim, S Ha, S Lee, E Kim, SY Kim, SH Park… - Science Robotics, 2019 - science.org
Magnetic microrobots were developed for three-dimensional culture and the precise delivery
of stem cells in vitro, ex vivo, and in vivo. Hippocampal neural stem cells attached to the …

Motion control in magnetic microrobotics: From individual and multiple robots to swarms

L Yang, L Zhang - Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Magnetic microrobotics has undergone approximately 20 years of development, and the
robotics and control communities have contributed significant theoretical and practical …

A survey on swarm microrobotics

L Yang, J Yu, S Yang, B Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The small size and wireless actuation of microrobots make them potential candidates for
minimally invasive medicine. To advance microrobots to future clinical application …

A review on microrobots driven by optical and magnetic fields

Y Hou, H Wang, R Fu, X Wang, J Yu, S Zhang… - Lab on a Chip, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Due to their small sizes, microrobots are advantageous for accessing hard-to-reach spaces
for delivery and measurement. However, their small sizes also bring challenges in on-board …

Magnetic methods in robotics

JJ Abbott, E Diller, AJ Petruska - Annual Review of Control …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The goal of this article is to provide a thorough introduction to the state of the art in magnetic
methods for remote-manipulation and wireless-actuation tasks in robotics. The article …