Microrobots for minimally invasive medicine

BJ Nelson, IK Kaliakatsos… - Annual review of …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Microrobots have the potential to revolutionize many aspects of medicine. These untethered,
wirelessly controlled and powered devices will make existing therapeutic and diagnostic …

Sequential magneto‐actuated and optics‐triggered biomicrorobots for targeted cancer therapy

J Xing, T Yin, S Li, T Xu, A Ma, Z Chen… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Micro/nanorobots have the potential to be remotely propelled and manipulated in complex
biological fluid and organ tissue. However, the combination of the sophisticated …

Permanent magnet array–driven navigation of wireless millirobots inside soft tissues

D Son, MC Ugurlu, M Sitti - Science Advances, 2021 - science.org
Creating wireless milliscale robots that navigate inside soft tissues of the human body for
medical applications has been a challenge because of the limited onboard propulsion and …

Magnetic actuation based motion control for microrobots: An overview

T Xu, J Yu, X Yan, H Choi, L Zhang - Micromachines, 2015 - mdpi.com
Untethered, controllable, mobile microrobots have been proposed for numerous
applications, ranging from micro-manipulation, in vitro tasks (eg, operation of microscale …

Autonomous 3D positional control of a magnetic microrobot using reinforcement learning

SA Abbasi, A Ahmed, S Noh, NL Gharamaleki… - Nature Machine …, 2024 - nature.com
Magnetic microrobots have shown promise in the field of biomedical engineering, facilitating
precise drug delivery, non-invasive diagnosis and cell-based therapy. Current techniques …

Magnetically actuated helical microrobot with magnetic nanoparticle retrieval and sequential dual-drug release abilities

H Lee, S Park - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cancer is one of the diseases with high mortality worldwide. Various methods for cancer
treatment are being developed, and among them, magnetically driven microrobots capable …

A review of microrobot's system: Towards system integration for autonomous actuation in vivo

Z Li, C Li, L Dong, J Zhao - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Microrobots have received great attention due to their great potential in the biomedical field,
and there has been extraordinary progress on them in many respects, making it possible to …

Magnetic‐Powered Janus Cell Robots Loaded with Oncolytic Adenovirus for Active and Targeted Virotherapy of Bladder Cancer

Z Cong, S Tang, L Xie, M Yang, Y Li, D Lu… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A unique robotic medical platform is designed by utilizing cell robots as the active “Trojan
horse” of oncolytic adenovirus (OA), capable of tumor‐selective binding and killing. The OA …

A red blood cell‐derived bionic microrobot capable of hierarchically adapting to five critical stages in systemic drug delivery

YX Zhu, HR Jia, YW Jiang, Y Guo, QY Duan… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The tumour‐targeting efficiency of systemically delivered chemodrugs largely dictates the
therapeutic outcome of anticancer treatment. Major challenges lie in the complexity of …

Mobile microrobots for bioengineering applications

H Ceylan, J Giltinan, K Kozielski, M Sitti - Lab on a Chip, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Untethered micron-scale mobile robots can navigate and non-invasively perform specific
tasks inside unprecedented and hard-to-reach inner human body sites and inside enclosed …