State-of-the-art biomedical applications such as targeted drug delivery and laparoscopic
surgery are extremely challenging because of the small length scales, the requirements of …

Small-scale magnetic robots are remotely actuated and controlled by an externally applied
magnetic field. These robots have a characteristic size ranging from several millimetres …

Osteocyte lacuno-canalicular network (LCN) is comprised of micrometre-sized pores and
submicrometric wide channels in bone. Accumulating evidence suggests multiple functions …

The growing interest in soft robotics has resulted in an increased demand for accurate and
reliable material modelling. As soft robots experience high deformations, highly nonlinear …

Millimeter and submillimeter robots promise great potential in a variety of fields. The
miniature bodies of these small-scale robots endow them with distinctive advantages in …

Osteocytes are the major mechanosensing cells during bone remodeling. Current bone
mechanotransduction research use macro-scale devices such as flow chambers; however in …

Mechanotransduction describes a cellular mechanism of sensing and converting
mechanical cues into biochemical signals to regulate cell processes, such as adhesion …

Mechanotransduction describes a cellular mechanism of sensing and converting
mechanical cues into biochemical signals to regulate cell processes, such as adhesion …