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Photoacoustic Imaging to Track Magnetic-manipulated Micro-Robots in Deep Tissue

Sensors, 2020
The next generation of intelligent robotic systems has been envisioned as micro-scale mobile and externally controllable robots. Visualization of such small size microrobots to track their motion in nontransparent medium such as human tissue remains a ...
Yan Yan, Wuming Jing, Mohammad Mehrmohammadi   +2 more
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
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Magnetic Micro‐ and Nanorobots for Precision Thrombolysis: Design Strategies and Translational Challenges

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Micro‐ and nanorobots for targeted thrombolysis. This perspective elaborates on the clinical indication of blood clot disorders and current limitations for treatment. As a novel, alternative solution, micro‐ and nanorobots can be used to treat and break down thrombi.
Joshua M. Mesfin, Yimo Yan, Nikola Cesarovic, Simone Schuerle   +3 more
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An aquatic microrobot for microscale flow manipulation

Scientific Reports, 2022
Microrobots have been developed and extensively employed for performing the variety tasks with various applications. However, the intricate fabrication and actuation processes employed for microrobots further restrict their multitudinous applicability as
Satishkumar Subendran, Chun-Fang Wang, Dineshkumar Loganathan, Yueh-Hsun Lu, Chia-Yuan Chen   +4 more
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Study on Structural Design and Motion Characteristics of Magnetic Helical Soft Microrobots with Drug-Carrying Function

Micromachines
Magnetic soft microrobots have a wide range of applications in targeted drug therapy, cell manipulation, and other aspects. Currently, the research on magnetic soft microrobots is still in the exploratory stage, and most of the research focuses on a ...
Qian Gao, Tingting Lin, Ziteng Liu, Zebiao Chen, Zidong Chen, Cheng Hu, Teng Shen   +6 more
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Intelligent Micro/Nanorobots for Targeted Interventional Therapy: From Bench to Clinic

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Zirui Zhang et al. reviewed the application and challenges of mobile nanomachines in interventional therapy. By converting exogenous energy, including chemical, magnetic, optical, and ultrasonic sources, into mechanical forces, micro/nanorobots (MNRs) enable precise actuation at unprecedented scales. Evolving far beyond traditional drug delivery, these
Zirui Zhang, Yu Dong, Yongsheng Du, Rui Gao, Lin Zhang, Fei Tong   +5 more
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Continuum Robots in Surgery: From Engineering Design to Clinical Practice

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
The hyper‐redundant nature of continuum robot structures enables near‐infinite degrees of freedom leading to immense potential for medical applications. This review provides a historical background of continuum robots and novel ideas shaping their progress to current structural design, sensing technology, modeling techniques, and control methods.
Griffin Smith, Kaitlyn Clancy, Siwen Xie, Xiaochen Li, Sarah Khalife, Benjamin van der Woerd, Onaizah Onaizah   +6 more
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Autonomous Navigation of Pollen‐Inspired Magnetic Microrobots for Biomedical Applications

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A sunflower pollen‐inspired magnetic microrobot enables controlled rolling navigation in vessel‐like environments. Its open geometry reduces hydrodynamic drag, while vision‐based closed‐loop control, shortest‐path planning, and reinforcement learning support target‐reaching and maze navigation with microrobot‐scale accuracy, highlighting a route toward
Ali Anil Demircali, Abdurrahim Yilmaz, Meysam Keshavarz, Jinshi Zhao, Ara Darzi, Eric Yeatman, Burak Temelkuran   +6 more
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Towards Functional Mobile Microrobotic Systems

Robotics, 2019
This paper presents our work over the last decade in developing functional microrobotic systems, which include wireless actuation of microrobots to traverse complex surfaces, addition of sensing capabilities, and independent actuation of swarms of ...
Georges Adam, Sagar Chowdhury, Maria Guix, Benjamin V. Johnson, Chenghao Bi, David Cappelleri   +5 more
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TriMag Microrobots: 3D‐Printed Microrobots for Magnetic Actuation, Imaging, and Hyperthermia

Advanced Materials
Abstract Microrobots hold immense potential in biomedical applications, including drug delivery, disease diagnostics, and minimally invasive surgeries. However, two key challenges hinder their clinical translation: achieving scalable and precision fabrication, and enabling non‐invasive imaging and tracking within ...
Liuxi Xing, Yulu Cai, Yapei Zhang, Kevin Mozel, Zhengxu Tang, Tengteng Tang, Vittorio Mottini, Saumya Nigam, Bryan R. Smith, Ian Y Lee, Tavarekere N. Nagaraja, Ping Wang, Xiangjia Li, Tong Gao, Jinxing Li   +14 more
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