Biomedical applications of untethered mobile milli/microrobots

M Sitti, H Ceylan, W Hu, J Giltinan… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Untethered robots miniaturized to the length scale of millimeter and below attract growing
attention for the prospect of transforming many aspects of health care and bioengineering …

Smart wearable systems: Current status and future challenges

M Chan, D Estève, JY Fourniols, C Escriba… - Artificial intelligence in …, 2012 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: Extensive efforts have been made in both academia and industry in the
research and development of smart wearable systems (SWS) for health monitoring (HM) …

Ingestible electronics for diagnostics and therapy

C Steiger, A Abramson, P Nadeau… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
The gastrointestinal (GI) tract offers the opportunity to detect physiological and
pathophysiological signals from the human body. Ingestible electronics can gain close …

Ingestible sensors

K Kalantar-Zadeh, N Ha, JZ Ou, KJ Berean - ACS sensors, 2017 - ACS Publications
Ingestible sensing capsules are fast emerging as a critical technology that has the ability to
greatly impact health, nutrition, and clinical areas. These ingestible devices are noninvasive …

Powering implantable and ingestible electronics

SY Yang, V Sencadas, SS You, NZX Jia… - Advanced functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Implantable and ingestible biomedical electronic devices can be useful tools for detecting
physiological and pathophysiological signals, and providing treatments that cannot be done …

Frontiers of medical robotics: from concept to systems to clinical translation

J Troccaz, G Dagnino, GZ Yang - Annual review of biomedical …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Medical robotics is poised to transform all aspects of medicine—from surgical intervention to
targeted therapy, rehabilitation, and hospital automation. A key area is the development of …

Medical robotics and computer-integrated surgery

RH Taylor, A Menciassi, G Fichtinger, P Fiorini… - Springer handbook of …, 2016 - Springer
The growth of medical robotics since the mid-1980s has been striking. From a few initial
efforts in stereotactic brain surgery, orthopaedics, endoscopic surgery, microsurgery, and …

Medical technologies and challenges of robot-assisted minimally invasive intervention and diagnostics

N Simaan, RM Yasin, L Wang - Annual Review of Control …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Emerging paradigms furthering the reach of medical technology into human anatomy
present unique modeling, control, and sensing problems. This review provides a brief history …

A mm-sized implantable medical device (IMD) with ultrasonic power transfer and a hybrid bi-directional data link

J Charthad, MJ Weber, TC Chang… - IEEE Journal of solid …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A first proof-of-concept mm-sized implantable device using ultrasonic power transfer and a
hybrid bi-directional data communication link is presented. Ultrasonic power transfer …

Image-integrated magnetic actuation systems for localization and remote actuation of medical miniature robots: A survey

X Du, J Yu - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Magnetic miniature robots are promising tools for minimally invasive and noninvasive
therapy. Constructing systems with actuation–perception loops is an essential step to …