Magnetically controlled soft robotics utilizing elastomers and gels in actuation: A review

HJ Chung, AM Parsons, L Zheng - Advanced Intelligent …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A magnetic field has unique advantages in controlling soft robotics inside of an enclosed
space, such as surgical catheters or untethered drug‐delivering robots operating in the …

Bio-inspired magnetic swimming microrobots for biomedical applications

KE Peyer, L Zhang, BJ Nelson - Nanoscale, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Microrobots have been proposed for future biomedical applications in which they are able to
navigate in viscous fluidic environments. Nature has inspired numerous microrobotic …

3D printed enzymatically biodegradable soft helical microswimmers

X Wang, XH Qin, C Hu, A Terzopoulou… - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Mobile micro‐and nanorobots are proposed for future biomedical applications, such as
diagnostics and targeted delivery. For their translation to clinical practice, biocompatibility …

Swimming by reciprocal motion at low Reynolds number

T Qiu, TC Lee, AG Mark, KI Morozov, R Münster… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Biological microorganisms swim with flagella and cilia that execute nonreciprocal motions
for low Reynolds number (Re) propulsion in viscous fluids. This symmetry requirement is a …

How should microrobots swim?

JJ Abbott, KE Peyer, MC Lagomarsino… - … journal of Robotics …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Microrobots have the potential to dramatically change many aspects of medicine by
navigating through bodily fluids to perform targeted diagnosis and therapy. Researchers …

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 …

Design, manufacturing and applications of small-scale magnetic soft robots

M Eshaghi, M Ghasemi, K Khorshidi - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2021 - Elsevier
During past few years, applications of untethered magnetically controlled soft robots in the
biomedical operations have been extensively reported, which is attributed to the efficient …

Engineering of self‐propelling microbots and microdevices powered by magnetic and electric fields

K Han, CW Shields IV, OD Velev - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In the last two decades, advances in micro‐and nanofabrication have enabled the
development of a wide variety of active or “self‐propelling” microparticles, which convert …

3D printed template‐assisted casting of biocompatible polyvinyl alcohol‐based soft microswimmers with tunable stability

R Sanchis‐Gual, H Ye, T Ueno… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The past decade has seen an upsurge in the development of small‐scale magnetic robots
for various biomedical applications. However, many of the reported designs comprise …

Magnetic propulsion of self-assembled colloidal carpets: efficient cargo transport via a conveyor-belt effect

F Martinez-Pedrero, P Tierno - Physical Review Applied, 2015 - APS
We demonstrate a general method to assemble and propel highly maneuverable colloidal
carpets which can be steered via remote control in any direction of the plane. These …