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 …

Recent advances on high‐speed and holographic two‐photon direct laser writing

A Balena, M Bianco, F Pisanello… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Two‐Photon Lithography, thanks to its very high sub‐diffraction resolution, has
become the lithographic technique par excellence in applications requiring small feature …

Environmentally adaptive shape-morphing microrobots for localized cancer cell treatment

C Xin, D Jin, Y Hu, L Yang, R Li, L Wang, Z Ren… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Microrobots have attracted considerable attention due to their extensive applications in
microobject manipulation and targeted drug delivery. To realize more complex micro …

Light-triggered multi-joint microactuator fabricated by two-in-one femtosecond laser writing

C Xin, Z Ren, L Zhang, L Yang, D Wang, Y Hu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Inspired by the flexible joints of humans, actuators containing soft joints have been
developed for various applications, including soft grippers, artificial muscles, and wearable …

Biomedical micro‐/nanomotors: from overcoming biological barriers to in vivo imaging

C Gao, Y Wang, Z Ye, Z Lin, X Ma, Q He - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Self‐propelled micro‐and nanomotors (MNMs) have shown great potential for applications
in the biomedical field, such as active targeted delivery, detoxification, minimally invasive …

Femtosecond laser programmed artificial musculoskeletal systems

ZC Ma, YL Zhang, B Han, XY Hu, CH Li… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Natural musculoskeletal systems have been widely recognized as an advanced robotic
model for designing robust yet flexible microbots. However, the development of artificial …

Magnetic microrobots with folate targeting for drug delivery

M Ye, Y Zhou, H Zhao, X Wang - Cyborg and Bionic Systems, 2023 - spj.science.org
Untethered microrobots can be used for cargo delivery (eg, drug molecules, stem cells, and
genes) targeting designated areas. However, it is not enough to just reach the lesion site, as …

Magnetic helical micro-/nanomachines: Recent progress and perspective

Y Dong, L Wang, V Iacovacci, X Wang, L Zhang… - Matter, 2022 - cell.com
Inspired by bacterial flagella, helical micro-/nanomachines (H-MNMs) can achieve
controllable 3D movement by converting rotational motion to translation in a corkscrew …

Autonomous 3D positional control of a magnetic microrobot using reinforcement learning

SA Abbasi, A Ahmed, S Noh, NL Gharamaleki… - Nature Machine …, 2024 - nature.com
Magnetic microrobots have shown promise in the field of biomedical engineering, facilitating
precise drug delivery, non-invasive diagnosis and cell-based therapy. Current techniques …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-material multi-photon 3D laser micro-and nanoprinting

L Yang, F Mayer, UHF Bunz, E Blasco… - Light: Advanced …, 2021 - light-am.com
Abstract Three-dimensional (3D) laser micro-and nanoprinting based upon multi-photon
absorption has made its way from early scientific discovery to industrial manufacturing …