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 …

Micro-/nanoscale robotics for chemical and biological sensing

L Zheng, N Hart, Y Zeng - Lab on a Chip, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The field of micro-/nanorobotics has attracted extensive interest from a variety of research
communities and witnessed enormous progress in a broad array of applications ranging …

Shape‐Programmable Adaptive Multi‐Material Microswimmers for Biomedical Applications

L Tan, Y Yang, L Fang… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Flagellated microorganisms can swim at low Reynolds numbers and adapt to changes in
their environment. Specifically, the flagella can switch their shapes or modes through gene …

Design, actuation, and functionalization of untethered soft magnetic robots with life-like motions: A review

J Miao, S Sun - Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Soft robots have demonstrated superior flexibility and functionality than conventional rigid
robots. These versatile devices can respond to a wide range of external stimuli (including …

A review of magnetically driven swimming microrobots: Material selection, structure design, control method, and applications

H Liu, Q Guo, W Wang, T Yu, Z Yuan, Z Ge… - Reviews on Advanced …, 2023 - degruyter.com
Magnetically driven swimming microrobot is a typical one in the family of microrobots and
they can achieve navigation and manipulation in low Reynolds number biomedical …

Responsive Hydrogel‐Based Modular Microrobots for Multi‐Functional Micromanipulation

L Tan, DJ Cappelleri - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Microrobots show great potential in biomedical applications such as drug delivery and cell
manipulations. However, current microrobots are mostly fabricated as a single entity and …

Helical Propulsion in Low-Re Numbers with Near-Zero Angle of Attack

LJW Ligtenberg, IAA Ekkelkamp… - 2023 IEEE/RSJ …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One approach to the wireless actuation and gravity compensation of untethered helical
magnetic devices (UHMD) is through swimming with a non-zero angle of attack (AoA). This …

Navigation of untethered small-scale helical devices using magnetic system under ultrasound guidance

C Li, S Misra, ISM Khalil - IEEE Transactions on Medical …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Magnetic actuation of untethered small-scale helical devices (USHDs) shows great potential
for targeted drug delivery or as minimally invasive surgical tools in the human body …

[HTML][HTML] Maximizing the survival probability in a cash flow inventory problem with a joint service level constraint

Z Chen, TW Archibald - International Journal of Production Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper investigates a multi-period stochastic cash flow inventory problem with the aim of
maximizing the long-term survival probability, which may be the objective of some retailers …

A Magnetic Helical Miniature Robot With Soft Magnetic-Controlled Gripper

A Zhu, C Bai, X Lu, Y Zhu, K Wang… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Magnetic helical miniature robots (MHMRs) exhibit efficient motion performance in low
Reynolds number environments, having great promise for biomedical applications like …