Soft actuators for real-world applications

M Li, A Pal, A Aghakhani, A Pena-Francesch… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Inspired by physically adaptive, agile, reconfigurable and multifunctional soft-bodied
animals and human muscles, soft actuators have been developed for a variety of …

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 …

Magnetically steerable bacterial microrobots moving in 3D biological matrices for stimuli-responsive cargo delivery

MB Akolpoglu, Y Alapan, NO Dogan, SF Baltaci… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Bacterial biohybrids, composed of self-propelling bacteria carrying micro/nanoscale
materials, can deliver their payload to specific regions under magnetic control, enabling …

[HTML][HTML] Modular-designed engineered bacteria for precision tumor immunotherapy via spatiotemporal manipulation by magnetic field

X Ma, X Liang, Y Li, Q Feng, K Cheng, N Ma… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Micro-nano biorobots based on bacteria have demonstrated great potential for tumor
diagnosis and treatment. The bacterial gene expression and drug release should be …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Controlled propulsion of micro/nanomotors: operational mechanisms, motion manipulation and potential biomedical applications

T Liu, L Xie, CAH Price, J Liu, Q He… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Inspired by natural mobile microorganisms, researchers have developed micro/nanomotors
(MNMs) that can autonomously move by transducing different kinds of energies into kinetic …

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 …

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 …

Medical micro/nanorobots in complex media

Z Wu, Y Chen, D Mukasa, OS Pak, W Gao - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Medical micro/nanorobots have received tremendous attention over the past decades owing
to their potential to be navigated into hard-to-reach tissues for a number of biomedical …