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Multitasking Smart Intestinal Capsule Robot: A Cutting‐Edge Platform for Sampling, Diagnosis, and Therapy

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Gut microbiota and biomarkers are linked to diseases like neurological disorders and metabolic syndromes. Ingestible capsule robots enable minimally invasive gut health assessment. This article proposes a promising direction for the advancement of capsule robots, integrating in situ sampling, real‐time diagnostics, and personalized therapy.
Xizong Chen, Libing Huang, Lei Ren, Miao Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multimodal Actuation and Environment Adaptive Strategies of Bio‐Inspired Micro/Nanorobots in Precision Medicine

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
An introduction for multidrive and environment‐adaptive micro/nanorobotics: design and fabrication strategies, intelligent actuation, and their applications. Various intelligent actuation approaches—magnetic, acoustic, optical, chemical, and biological—can be synergistically designed to enhance flexibility and adaptive behavior for precision medicine ...
Aiqing Ma, Han Gong, Jiacheng Ouyang, Liqi Chen, Tianfang Kang, Yiran He, Guojun Huang, Sidi Zheng, Ting Yin, Hong Pan, Lintao Cai   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Dielectric Elastomer Actuator-Driven Vibro-Impact Crawling Robot

Micromachines, 2022
Over the last decade, many bio-inspired crawling robots have been proposed by adopting the principle of two-anchor crawling or anisotropic friction-based vibrational crawling.
Chuang Wu, Huan Yan, Anjiang Cai, Chongjing Cao   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hard‐Magnetic Soft Millirobots in Underactuated Systems

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review provides a comprehensive overview of hard‐magnetic soft millirobots in underactuated systems. It examines key advances in structural design, physics‐informed modeling, and control strategies, while highlighting the interplay among these domains.
Qiong Wang, Zixuan Zhang, Bingyan Li, Junkai Wang, Hongcheng Gu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ultra-Miniaturized Antenna for Deeply Implanted Biomedical Devices

IEEE Access, 2022
A small antenna system plays a vital role in wireless communication and monitoring of key-signs through information collected by implantable devices. Therefore, this study presents an ultra-miniaturized antenna for deeply medical implants, operating at 2.
Naeem Abbas, Abdul Basir, Amjad Iqbal, Muhammad Yousaf, Adeel Akram, Hyoungsuk Yoo   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Novel JPEG-based Wireless Capsule Endoscope [PDF]

Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology, 2010
For the diagnosis of gastrointestinal (GI) tract diseases, a new type of JPEG-based swallowable wireless capsule endoscope (CE) has been developed, which is 12 mm in diameter and 28 mm in length and has the ability to take 320 × 240 resolution images, compress them into JPEG form, and transmit the compressed images.
Guobing, Pan, Guozheng, Yan, Xiangling, Qiu, Xinshuai, Song   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

3D Printing of Soft Robotic Systems: Advances in Fabrication Strategies and Future Trends

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Collectively, this review systematically examines 3D‐printed soft robotics, encompassing material selections, function integration, and manufacturing methodologies. Meanwhile, fabrication strategies are analyzed in order of increasing complexity, highlighting persistent challenges with proposed solutions.
Changjiang Liu, Bin Cui, Xumin Huang, Xiaoyu (Rayne) Zheng, T. Thang Vo‐Doan, Ruirui Qiao   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ultra-Wideband Wireless Capsule Endoscope Localization Based on a Hybrid One-Shot Learning and Trilateration Method

IEEE Access
Wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) is a minimally invasive procedure that allows for the examination of the gastrointestinal tract using a small, swallowable capsule equipped with a camera.
Juthatip Wisanmongkol, Attaphongse Taparugssanagorn, Mariella Sarestoniemi, Matti Hamalainen, Jari Iinatti   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Whipple disease diagnosed by enteroscopy: first case report in Colombia of an underdiagnosed disease and literature review

BMC Gastroenterology, 2020
Background Whipple’s disease is a rare systemic disease caused by a gram-positive bacillus called Tropheryma whipplei. First described in 1907 as an intestinal lipodystrophy with histological finding of vacuoles in the macrophages of the intestinal ...
Margarita Rey R., Luis Alejandro Orozco, Katherine Marrugo, Rocio López, Erika D. Pérez-Riveros, José De la Hoz-Valle, Fernando Sierra-Arango   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Delayed presentation of an aspirated capsule endoscope [PDF]

Journal of Surgical Case Reports, 2013
Capsule endoscopy has revolutionized the investigation of small intestinal pathology with an increasing repertoire of indications. We present the first reported case of an aspirated capsule presenting after a long asymptomatic period that was removed with no permanent pulmonary sequelae.
Singh, Rohit A., Pai, Krishnanand R., Satur, Chris M.R.   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources