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Microrobots Based on Smart Materials with Their Manufacturing Methods and Applications
InventionsIn recent years, the field of microrobots has exploded, yielding many exciting new functions and applications, from object grasping and release to in vivo drug transport.
Jiawei Sun +5 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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Design of Microrobots – microworld technology
, 2021 This Bechelor thesis aims to introduce problematics of designing microrobots and microsystems. The thesis emphasizes technology, which are suitable for aplication in the microworld.
Kamrla, Jan
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Review of Bubble Applications in Microrobotics: Propulsion, Manipulation, and Assembly
Micromachines, 2022 In recent years, microbubbles have been widely used in the field of microrobots due to their unique properties. Microbubbles can be easily produced and used as power sources or tools of microrobots, and the bubbles can even serve as microrobots ...
Yuting Zhou, Liguo Dai, Niandong Jiao
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Annual Review of Biomedical EngineeringScientists around the world have long aimed to produce miniature robots that can be controlled inside the human body to aid doctors in identifying and treating diseases. Such microrobots hold the potential to access hard-to-reach areas of the body through the natural lumina.
Iacovacci, Veronica +3 more
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Azobenzene photoswitches translate molecular‐scale E/Z photoisomerization into macroscopic material responses and device‐level photonic functions. This Review highlights how azobenzene research has evolved from molecular photochemistry to photoalignment, mass migration, photomechanics, and heat release, ultimately enabling holography, reconfigurable ...
Heeju Son +20 more
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Macrophage-Based Microrobots for Anticancer Therapy: Recent Progress and Future Perspectives
Biomimetics, 2023 Macrophages, which are part of the mononuclear phagocytic system, possess sensory receptors that enable them to target cancer cells. In addition, they are able to engulf large amounts of particles through phagocytosis, suggesting a potential “Trojan ...
Van Du Nguyen, Jong-Oh Park, Eunpyo Choi
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.This review examines passive, active, and hybrid liquid manipulation strategies, highlighting hybrid approaches as an emerging route to reconcile energy efficiency with adaptive control. By actively reconstructing passive surfaces to store programmable interfacial energy, hybrid systems enable flexible yet low‐power liquid transport, with perspectives ...
Jiaqi Miao +3 more
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MicromachinesMicrorobots powered by multi-physics fields are becoming a hotspot for micro–nano manufacturing. Due to the small size of microrobots, they can easily enter small spaces that are difficult for ordinary robots to reach and perform a variety of special ...
Xiangyu Teng +7 more
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Soft Skins With Reversible Thickness Morphing: Materials, Mechanisms, and Applications
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Evolution of electronic skin (e‐skin) technologies toward adaptive, multifunctional soft skins. Phase I highlights early rigid and discrete sensory interfaces. Phase II shows the transition toward flexible, stretchable, and large‐area e‐skin. Phase III captures the emergence of computational e‐skin.
Oliver Ozioko +2 more
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