Microrobots for biomedicine: unsolved challenges and opportunities for translation

JG Lee, RR Raj, NB Day, CW Shields IV - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Microrobots are being explored for biomedical applications, such as drug delivery, biological
cargo transport, and minimally invasive surgery. However, current efforts largely focus on …

[HTML][HTML] Driving modes and characteristics of biomedical micro-robots

L Huang, Y Pan, M Wang, L Ren - Engineered Regeneration, 2023 - Elsevier
Micro-robots (MRs) are miniature machines with dimensions smaller than 1 mm and have
semi-or fully-autonomous capabilities, including sensing, decision-making, and performing …

Reduced rotational flows enable the translation of surface-rolling microrobots in confined spaces

U Bozuyuk, A Aghakhani, Y Alapan, M Yunusa… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Biological microorganisms overcome the Brownian motion at low Reynolds numbers by
utilizing symmetry-breaking mechanisms. Inspired by them, various microrobot locomotion …

Designing covalent organic framework‐based light‐driven microswimmers toward therapeutic applications

V Sridhar, E Yildiz, A Rodríguez‐Camargo… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
While micromachines with tailored functionalities enable therapeutic applications in
biological environments, their controlled motion and targeted drug delivery in biological …

Size‐Dependent Locomotion Ability of Surface Microrollers on Physiologically Relevant Microtopographical Surfaces

U Bozuyuk, E Yildiz, M Han, SO Demir, M Sitti - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Controlled microrobotic navigation inside the body possesses significant potential for
various biomedical engineering applications. Successful application requires considering …

Biohybrid magnetic microrobots: An intriguing and promising platform in biomedicine

S Zhu, Y Cheng, J Wang, G Liu, T Luo, X Li, S Yang… - Acta Biomaterialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Biohybrid magnetic microrobots (BMMs) have emerged as an exciting class of microrobots
and have been considered as a promising platform in biomedicine. Many microorganisms …

Roadmap for Clinical Translation of Mobile Microrobotics

U Bozuyuk, P Wrede, E Yildiz, M Sitti - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Medical microrobotics is an emerging field to revolutionize clinical applications in
diagnostics and therapeutics of various diseases. On the other hand, the mobile …

The mismatch between experimental and computational fluid dynamics analyses for magnetic surface microrollers

U Bozuyuk, H Ozturk, M Sitti - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Magnetically actuated Janus surface microrollers are promising microrobotic platform with
numerous potential biomedical engineering applications. While the locomotion models …

Bio-inspired micro-and nanorobotics driven by magnetic field

AV Chesnitskiy, AE Gayduk, VA Seleznev, VY Prinz - Materials, 2022 - mdpi.com
In recent years, there has been explosive growth in the number of investigations devoted to
the development and study of biomimetic micro-and nanorobots. The present review is …

A Survey of Recent Developments in Magnetic Microrobots for Micro-/Nano-Manipulation

R Xu, Q Xu - Micromachines, 2024 - mdpi.com
Magnetically actuated microrobots have become a research hotspot in recent years due to
their tiny size, untethered control, and rapid response capability. Moreover, an increasing …