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Control and Autonomy of Microrobots: Recent Progress and Perspective
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2022 After decades of development, microrobots have exhibited great application potential in the biomedical field, such as minimally invasive surgery, drug delivery, and bio‐sensing.
Jialin Jiang +3 more
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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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In-channel experiments on vertical swimming with bacteria-like robots [PDF]
, 2013 Bio-inspired micro-robots are of great importance as to implement versatile microsystems for a variety of in vivo and in vitro applications in medicine and biology.
Tabak, Ahmet Fatih, Yeşilyurt, Serhat
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Reviews on Advanced Materials Science, 2023 Magnetically driven swimming microrobot is a typical one in the family of microrobots and they can achieve navigation and manipulation in low Reynolds number biomedical environments with an external magnetic drive strategy.
Liu Huibin +6 more
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Magnetic Microrobots with Folate Targeting for Drug Delivery
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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A rolled-up-based fabrication method of 3D helical microrobots
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022 While the potential of using helical microrobots for biomedical applications, such as cargo transport, drug delivery, and micromanipulation, had been demonstrated, the viability to use them for practical applications is hindered by the cost, speed, and ...
Zihan Wang +8 more
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Robust Control Strategy of Gradient Magnetic Drive for Microrobots Based on Extended State Observer
Cyborg and Bionic Systems, 2022 Microrobots have great application potential in the biomedical field, to realize the precision and efficiency of microrobots in vivo is research focus in this field. Microrobots are accompanied by various disturbances in complex environment.
Jiawei Lu +5 more
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Towards a micropositioning system for targeted drug delivery in wireless capsule endoscopy [PDF]
, 2011 This paper describes a novel micropositioning mechanism for achieving 1ml of targeted drug delivery within wireless capsule endoscopes. The mechanism allows a needle to be positioned within a 22.5° segment of a cylindrical capsule and be extendible by up
Woods, SP +3 more
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2021 Microrobots with simultaneously improved degradability and mechanical strength are highly demanded in performing in vivo delivery tasks in clinical applications. The properties of degradability and mechanical strength are contradictory for many materials
Tanyong Wei +6 more
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Cooperative Micromanipulation Using the Independent Actuation of Fifty Microrobots in Parallel
Scientific Reports, 2017 Micromanipulation for applications in areas such as tissue engineering can require mesoscale structures to be assembled with microscale resolution. One method for achieving such manipulation is the parallel actuation of many microrobots in parallel ...
M. Arifur Rahman +3 more
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