Robotic wireless capsule endoscopy: recent advances and upcoming technologies

Q Cao, R Deng, Y Pan, R Liu, Y Chen, G Gong… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) offers a non-invasive evaluation of the digestive system,
eliminating the need for sedation and the risks associated with conventional endoscopic …

3D printed magnetic polymer composite hydrogels for hyperthermia and magnetic field driven structural manipulation

S Ganguly, S Margel - Progress in Polymer Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Magnetic hydrogels and soft composites have fueled the development of next generation
biomimetic soft robotics due to their precise control and non-cytotoxic nature. Bare magnetic …

Challenges of continuum robots in clinical context: a review

T da Veiga, JH Chandler, P Lloyd… - Progress in …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
With the maturity of surgical robotic systems based on traditional rigid-link principles, the rate
of progress slowed as limits of size and controllable degrees of freedom were reached …

Magnetic soft robots: Design, actuation, and function

H Wang, Z Zhu, H **, 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 …

Magnetically actuated soft capsule endoscope for fine-needle biopsy

D Son, H Gilbert, M Sitti - Soft robotics, 2020 - liebertpub.com
Wireless capsule endoscopes have revolutionized diagnostic procedures in the
gastrointestinal (GI) tract by minimizing discomfort and trauma. Biopsy procedures, which …

Human adipose–derived mesenchymal stem cell–based medical microrobot system for knee cartilage regeneration in vivo

G Go, SG Jeong, A Yoo, J Han, B Kang, S Kim… - Science Robotics, 2020 - science.org
Targeted cell delivery by a magnetically actuated microrobot with a porous structure is a
promising technique to enhance the low targeting efficiency of mesenchymal stem cell …

Intracellular manipulation and measurement with multipole magnetic tweezers

X Wang, C Ho, Y Tsatskis, J Law, Z Zhang, M Zhu… - Science robotics, 2019 - science.org
The capability to directly interrogate intracellular structures inside a single cell for
measurement and manipulation is important for understanding subcellular and suborganelle …

[HTML][HTML] Frontiers of robotic colonoscopy: A comprehensive review of robotic colonoscopes and technologies

G Ciuti, K Skonieczna-Żydecka, W Marlicz… - Journal of clinical …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Flexible colonoscopy remains the prime mean of screening for colorectal cancer (CRC) and
the gold standard of all population-based screening pathways around the world. Almost …

[HTML][HTML] Deep endovo: A recurrent convolutional neural network (rcnn) based visual odometry approach for endoscopic capsule robots

M Turan, Y Almalioglu, H Araujo, E Konukoglu, M Sitti - Neurocomputing, 2018 - Elsevier
Ingestible wireless capsule endoscopy is an emerging minimally invasive diagnostic
technology for inspection of the GI tract and diagnosis of a wide range of diseases and …

Ingestible sensors and sensing systems for minimally invasive diagnosis and monitoring: the next frontier in minimally invasive screening

LA Beardslee, GE Banis, S Chu, S Liu, AA Chapin… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Ingestible electronic systems that are capable of embedded sensing, particularly within the
gastrointestinal (GI) tract and its accessory organs, have the potential to screen for diseases …