Vision-Based Automated Control of Magnetic Microrobots [PDF]
Micromachines, 2022 Magnetic microrobots are vital tools for targeted therapy, drug delivery, and micromanipulation on cells in the biomedical field. In this paper, we report an automated control and path planning method of magnetic microrobots based on computer vision ...
Xiaoqing Tang +5 more
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Magnetic Microrobots Fabricated by Photopolymerization and Assembly [PDF]
Cyborg and Bionic Systems, 2023 Magnetic soft microrobots have great potential to access narrow spaces and conduct multiple tasks in the biomedical field. Until now, drug delivery, microsurgery, disease diagnosis, and dredging the blocked blood vessel have been realized by magnetic ...
Xiyue Liang +6 more
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Magnetic Microrobots with Folate Targeting for Drug Delivery [PDF]
Cyborg and Bionic Systems, 2023 Untethered microrobots can be used for cargo delivery (e.g., drug molecules, stem cells, and genes) targeting designated areas. However, it is not enough to just reach the lesion site, as some drugs can only play the best therapeutic effect within the ...
Min Ye +3 more
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Immunomodulation and delivery of macrophages using nano-smooth drug-loaded magnetic microrobots for dual targeting cancer therapy [PDF]
iScience, 2022 Summary: To realize the potential to use micro/nanorobots for targeted cancer therapy, it is important to improve their biocompatibility and targeting ability. Here, we report on drug-loaded magnetic microrobots capable of polarizing macrophages into the
Xiaoxia Song, Wei Fu, U Kei Cheang
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3D Microprinting of Iron Platinum Nanoparticle‐Based Magnetic Mobile Microrobots
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2021 Wireless magnetic microrobots are envisioned to revolutionize minimally invasive medicine. While many promising medical magnetic microrobots are proposed, the ones using hard magnetic materials are not mostly biocompatible, and the ones using ...
Joshua Giltinan +4 more
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2022 Magnetic mobile microrobots navigating biofluids with both upstream and downstream locomotion provide a promising solution to targeted drug delivery for precision medicine.
Zehao Wu +5 more
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Reconfigurable self-assembly of photocatalytic magnetic microrobots for water purification [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2023 The development of artificial small-scale robotic swarms with nature-mimicking collective behaviors represents the frontier of research in robotics. While microrobot swarming under magnetic manipulation has been extensively explored, light-induced self ...
Mario Urso +4 more
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A Survey of Recent Developments in Magnetic Microrobots for Micro-/Nano-Manipulation [PDF]
MicromachinesMagnetically actuated microrobots have become a research hotspot in recent years due to their tiny size, untethered control, and rapid response capability.
Ruomeng Xu, Qingsong Xu
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Magnetic Microrobots for Drug Delivery: A Review of Fabrication Materials, Structure Designs and Drug Delivery Strategies [PDF]
MoleculesMagnetic microrobots have emerged as a promising platform for drug delivery in recent years. By enabling remotely controlled motion and precise navigation under external magnetic fields, these systems offer new solutions to overcome the limitations of ...
Jin Shi +10 more
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Magnetic Actuation Based Motion Control for Microrobots: An Overview
Micromachines, 2015 Untethered, controllable, mobile microrobots have been proposed for numerous applications, ranging from micro-manipulation, in vitro tasks (e.g., operation of microscale biological substances) to in vivo applications (e.g., targeted drug delivery ...
Tiantian Xu +4 more
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