Magnetically driven micro and nanorobots

H Zhou, CC Mayorga-Martinez, S Pané… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Manipulation and navigation of micro and nanoswimmers in different fluid environments can
be achieved by chemicals, external fields, or even motile cells. Many researchers have …

[HTML][HTML] Smart/stimuli-responsive hydrogels: Cutting-edge platforms for tissue engineering and other biomedical applications

HM El-Husseiny, EA Mady, L Hamabe, A Abugomaa… - Materials Today Bio, 2022 - Elsevier
Recently, biomedicine and tissue regeneration have emerged as great advances that
impacted the spectrum of healthcare. This left the door open for further improvement of their …

3D-printed microrobots from design to translation

SR Dabbagh, MR Sarabi, MT Birtek, S Seyfi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Microrobots have attracted the attention of scientists owing to their unique features to
accomplish tasks in hard-to-reach sites in the human body. Microrobots can be precisely …

Trends in micro‐/nanorobotics: materials development, actuation, localization, and system integration for biomedical applications

B Wang, K Kostarelos, BJ Nelson… - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Micro‐/nanorobots (m‐bots) have attracted significant interest due to their suitability
for applications in biomedical engineering and environmental remediation. Particularly, their …

Medical micro/nanorobots in precision medicine

F Soto, J Wang, R Ahmed, U Demirci - Advanced science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in medical robots promise to improve modern medicine and the quality of life.
Miniaturization of these robotic platforms has led to numerous applications that leverages …

3D printing of functional microrobots

J Li, M Pumera - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
3D printing (also called “additive manufacturing” or “rapid prototyping”) is able to translate
computer-aided and designed virtual 3D models into 3D tangible constructs/objects through …

Environmentally adaptive shape-morphing microrobots for localized cancer cell treatment

C Xin, D Jin, Y Hu, L Yang, R Li, L Wang, Z Ren… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Microrobots have attracted considerable attention due to their extensive applications in
microobject manipulation and targeted drug delivery. To realize more complex micro …

Light-based vat-polymerization bioprinting

R Levato, O Dudaryeva… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Light-based vat-polymerization bioprinting enables computer-aided patterning of 3D cell-
laden structures in a point-by-point, layer-by-layer or volumetric manner, using vat (vats) …

Voxelated three-dimensional miniature magnetic soft machines via multimaterial heterogeneous assembly

J Zhang, Z Ren, W Hu, RH Soon, IC Yasa, Z Liu… - Science robotics, 2021 - science.org
Small-scale soft-bodied machines that respond to externally applied magnetic field have
attracted wide research interest because of their unique capabilities and promising potential …

Pros and cons: Magnetic versus optical microrobots

M Sitti, DS Wiersma - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Mobile microrobotics has emerged as a new robotics field within the last decade to create
untethered tiny robots that can access and operate in unprecedented, dangerous, or hard‐to …