[HTML][HTML] Micro-rocket robot with all-optic actuating and tracking in blood

D Li, C Liu, Y Yang, L Wang, Y Shen - Light: Science & Applications, 2020 - nature.com
Micro/nanorobots have long been expected to reach all parts of the human body through
blood vessels for medical treatment or surgery. However, in the current stage, it is still …

Real-time 3D optoacoustic tracking of cell-sized magnetic microrobots circulating in the mouse brain vasculature

P Wrede, O Degtyaruk, SK Kalva, XL Deán-Ben… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Mobile microrobots hold remarkable potential to revolutionize health care by enabling
unprecedented active medical interventions and theranostics, such as active cargo delivery …

[HTML][HTML] Light-controlled soft bio-microrobot

J Xiong, X Li, Z He, Y Shi, T Pan, G Zhu, D Lu… - Light: Science & …, 2024 - nature.com
Micro/nanorobots hold exciting prospects for biomedical and even clinical applications due
to their small size and high controllability. However, it is still a big challenge to maneuver …

High shear rate propulsion of acoustic microrobots in complex biological fluids

A Aghakhani, A Pena-Francesch, U Bozuyuk… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Untethered microrobots offer a great promise for localized targeted therapy in hard-to-
access spaces in our body. Despite recent advancements, most microrobot propulsion …

Acoustically powered surface-slipping mobile microrobots

A Aghakhani, O Yasa, P Wrede… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Untethered synthetic microrobots have significant potential to revolutionize minimally
invasive medical interventions in the future. However, their relatively slow speed and low …

Ultrafast miniature robotic swimmers with upstream motility

Y Wang, H Chen, J Law, X Du, J Yu - Cyborg and Bionic Systems, 2023 - spj.science.org
With the development of materials science and micro–nano fabrication techniques,
miniature soft robots at millimeter or submillimeter size can be manufactured and actuated …

[HTML][HTML] Recent progress on micro-and nano-robots: Towards in vivo tracking and localization

B Wang, Y Zhang, L Zhang - Quantitative imaging in medicine and …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Scientists have dreamed for long of miniature robots that can be controlled and navigated
inside human body, to help the medical doctors to diagnose and treat the diseases. As …

Pros and cons: Magnetic versus optical microrobots

M Sitti, DS Wiersma - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Mobile microrobotics has emerged as a new robotics field within the last decade to create
untethered tiny robots that can access and operate in unprecedented, dangerous, or hard‐to …

A microrobotic system guided by photoacoustic computed tomography for targeted navigation in intestines in vivo

Z Wu, L Li, Y Yang, P Hu, Y Li, SY Yang, LV Wang… - Science robotics, 2019 - science.org
Recently, tremendous progress in synthetic micro/nanomotors in diverse environment has
been made for potential biomedical applications. However, existing micro/nanomotor …

[HTML][HTML] Recent process in microrobots: from propulsion to swarming for biomedical applications

R Wu, Y Zhu, X Cai, S Wu, L Xu, T Yu - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Recently, robots have assisted and contributed to the biomedical field. Scaling down the
size of robots to micro/nanoscale can increase the accuracy of targeted medications and …