Magnetically driven micro and nanorobots

H Zhou, CC Mayorga-Martinez, S Pané… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Manipulation and navigation of micro and nanoswimmers in different fluid environments can
be achieved by chemicals, external fields, or even motile cells. Many researchers have …

Trends in micro‐/nanorobotics: materials development, actuation, localization, and system integration for biomedical applications

B Wang, K Kostarelos, BJ Nelson… - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Micro‐/nanorobots (m‐bots) have attracted significant interest due to their suitability
for applications in biomedical engineering and environmental remediation. Particularly, their …

Smart materials for microrobots

F Soto, E Karshalev, F Zhang… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Over the past 15 years, the field of microrobotics has exploded with many research groups
from around the globe contributing to numerous innovations that have led to exciting new …

Engineering microrobots for targeted cancer therapies from a medical perspective

CK Schmidt, M Medina-Sánchez… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Systemic chemotherapy remains the backbone of many cancer treatments. Due to its
untargeted nature and the severe side effects it can cause, numerous nanomedicine …

3D printing of functional microrobots

J Li, M Pumera - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
3D printing (also called “additive manufacturing” or “rapid prototyping”) is able to translate
computer-aided and designed virtual 3D models into 3D tangible constructs/objects through …

Medical micro/nanorobots in complex media

Z Wu, Y Chen, D Mukasa, OS Pak, W Gao - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Medical micro/nanorobots have received tremendous attention over the past decades owing
to their potential to be navigated into hard-to-reach tissues for a number of biomedical …

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 …

Millimeter-scale flexible robots with programmable three-dimensional magnetization and motions

T Xu, J Zhang, M Salehizadeh, O Onaizah, E Diller - Science Robotics, 2019 - science.org
Flexible magnetic small-scale robots use patterned magnetization to achieve fast
transformation into complex three-dimensional (3D) shapes and thereby achieve locomotion …

Microrobots for targeted delivery and therapy in digestive system

Y Wang, J Shen, S Handschuh-Wang, M Qiu, S Du… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Untethered miniature robots enable targeted delivery and therapy deep inside the
gastrointestinal tract in a minimally invasive manner. By combining actuation systems and …

Multifunctional biohybrid magnetite microrobots for imaging-guided therapy

X Yan, Q Zhou, M Vincent, Y Deng, J Yu, J Xu, T Xu… - Science robotics, 2017 - science.org
Magnetic microrobots and nanorobots can be remotely controlled to propel in complex
biological fluids with high precision by using magnetic fields. Their potential for controlled …