Bioinspired hydrogel actuator for soft robotics: Opportunity and challenges

Y Chen, Y Zhang, H Li, J Shen, F Zhang, J He, J Lin… - Nano Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Natural organisms offer abundant inspiration for designing and fabricating hydrogel robots
with autonomous and intelligent behaviors, including motion, perception, and response to …

Magnetically actuated continuum medical robots: A review

Z Yang, H Yang, Y Cao, Y Cui… - Advanced intelligent …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The magnetic field has unique advantages in manipulating miniature robots working inside
the human body, such as high transparency to biological tissue and good controllability for …

Modularized microrobot with lock-and-detachable modules for targeted cell delivery in bile duct

L Su, D Jin, Y Wang, Q Wang, C Pan, S Jiang… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The magnetic microrobots promise benefits in minimally invasive cell-based therapy.
However, they generally suffer from an inevitable compromise between their magnetic …

Magnetoactive liquid-solid phase transitional matter

Q Wang, C Pan, Y Zhang, L Peng, Z Chen, C Majidi… - Matter, 2023 - cell.com
Magnetically actuated miniature machines can perform multimodal locomotion and
programmable deformations. However, they are either solid magnetic elastomers with …

Reactive wetting enabled anchoring of non-wettable iron oxide in liquid metal for miniature soft robot

Y Shen, D Jin, M Fu, S Liu, Z Xu, Q Cao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Magnetic liquid metal (LM) soft robots attract considerable attentions because of distinctive
immiscibility, deformability and maneuverability. However, conventional LM composites …

Fully recyclable, healable, soft, and stretchable dynamic polymers for magnetic soft robots

G Zhu, Y Hou, N Xia, X Wang, C Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetic soft robots capable of wirelessly controlled programmable deformation and
locomotion are desirable for diverse applications. Such multi‐variable actuation ideally …

Magnetic soft robots: Design, actuation, and function

H Wang, Z Zhu, H Jin, R Wei, L Bi, W Zhang - Journal of Alloys and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Driven by advances in soft material science, magnetic soft robots have recently attracted
significant attention owing to their remarkable reprogramming deformations under magnetic …

Reconfigurable Liquid‐Bodied Miniature Machines: Magnetic Control and Microrobotic Applications

Q Wang, N Xiang, J Lang, B Wang… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Soft miniature machines demonstrate multimodal actuation and morphology change
capabilities in narrow spaces smaller than their dimension. The wirelessly controlled soft …

Magnetic microrobots fabricated by photopolymerization and assembly

X Liang, Y Zhao, D Liu, Y Deng, T Arai… - Cyborg and Bionic …, 2023 - spj.science.org
Magnetic soft microrobots have great potential to access narrow spaces and conduct
multiple tasks in the biomedical field. Until now, drug delivery, microsurgery, disease …

Dynamic morphological transformations in soft architected materials via buckling instability encoded heterogeneous magnetization

N Xia, D Jin, C Pan, J Zhang, Z Yang, L Su… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The geometric reconfigurations in three-dimensional morphable structures have a wide
range of applications in flexible electronic devices and smart systems with unusual …