Microrobots for targeted delivery and therapy in digestive system

Y Wang, J Shen, S Handschuh-Wang, M Qiu, S Du… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Untethered miniature robots enable targeted delivery and therapy deep inside the
gastrointestinal tract in a minimally invasive manner. By combining actuation systems and …

Targeted drug delivery and imaging using mobile milli/microrobots: A promising future towards theranostic pharmaceutical design

A Vikram Singh, M Sitti - Current pharmaceutical design, 2016 - ingentaconnect.com
Miniature untethered medical robots have been receiving growing attention due to
technological advances in microactuation, microsensors, and microfabrication and have …

Medical Imaging of Microrobots: Toward In Vivo Applications

A Aziz, S Pane, V Iacovacci, N Koukourakis… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Medical microrobots (MRs) have been demonstrated for a variety of non-invasive biomedical
applications, such as tissue engineering, drug delivery, and assisted fertilization, among …

Micro/nanorobots for biomedicine: Delivery, surgery, sensing, and detoxification

J Li, B Esteban-Fernández de Ávila, W Gao, L Zhang… - Science robotics, 2017 - science.org
Micro-and nanoscale robots that can effectively convert diverse energy sources into
movement and force represent a rapidly emerging and fascinating robotics research area …

Mobile microrobots for active therapeutic delivery

P Erkoc, IC Yasa, H Ceylan, O Yasa… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in the versatility and sophistication of design, fabrication, and control
methods of mobile microrobots could have a transforming impact on future healthcare …

[HTML][HTML] Recent progress on micro-and nano-robots: Towards in vivo tracking and localization

B Wang, Y Zhang, L Zhang - Quantitative imaging in medicine and …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Scientists have dreamed for long of miniature robots that can be controlled and navigated
inside human body, to help the medical doctors to diagnose and treat the diseases. As …

Endoscopy-assisted magnetic navigation of biohybrid soft microrobots with rapid endoluminal delivery and imaging

B Wang, KF Chan, K Yuan, Q Wang, X Xia, L Yang… - Science Robotics, 2021 - science.org
High-precision delivery of microrobots at the whole-body scale is of considerable
importance for efforts toward targeted therapeutic intervention. However, vision-based …

[HTML][HTML] Translational prospects of untethered medical microrobots

H Ceylan, IC Yasa, U Kilic, W Hu… - Progress in Biomedical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Untethered mobile microrobots have the potential to transform medicine radically. Their
small size and wireless mobility can enable access to and navigation in confined, small …

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 …

Micro‐/nanorobots at work in active drug delivery

M Luo, Y Feng, T Wang, J Guan - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
After the tremendous advances over the past two decades, micro‐/nanorobots can
effectively convert other forms of energy into propulsion and movement, as well as be …