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 …

Magnetic actuation methods in bio/soft robotics

N Ebrahimi, C Bi, DJ Cappelleri, G Ciuti… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, magnetism has gained an enormous amount of interest among researchers
for actuating different sizes and types of bio/soft robots, which can be via an electromagnetic …

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 …

IRONSperm: Sperm-templated soft magnetic microrobots

V Magdanz, ISM Khalil, J Simmchen, GP Furtado… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
We develop biohybrid magnetic microrobots by electrostatic self-assembly of nonmotile
sperm cells and magnetic nanoparticles. Incorporating a biological entity into microrobots …

Bacterial therapies at the interface of synthetic biology and nanomedicine

J Hahn, S Ding, J Im, T Harimoto, KW Leong… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Bacteria are emerging as living drugs to treat a broad range of disease indications.
However, the inherent advantages of these replicating and immunostimulatory therapies …

Soft erythrocyte-based bacterial microswimmers for cargo delivery

Y Alapan, O Yasa, O Schauer, J Giltinan, AF Tabak… - Science robotics, 2018 - science.org
Bacteria-propelled biohybrid microswimmers have recently shown to be able to actively
transport and deliver cargos encapsulated into their synthetic constructs to specific regions …

Biohybrid robots: recent progress, challenges, and perspectives

VA Webster-Wood, M Guix, NW Xu… - Bioinspiration & …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The past ten years have seen the rapid expansion of the field of biohybrid robotics. By
combining engineered, synthetic components with living biological materials, new robotics …

Mobile microrobots for bioengineering applications

H Ceylan, J Giltinan, K Kozielski, M Sitti - Lab on a Chip, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Untethered micron-scale mobile robots can navigate and non-invasively perform specific
tasks inside unprecedented and hard-to-reach inner human body sites and inside enclosed …

Multifunctional bacteria-driven microswimmers for targeted active drug delivery

BW Park, J Zhuang, O Yasa, M Sitti - ACS nano, 2017 - ACS Publications
High-performance, multifunctional bacteria-driven microswimmers are introduced using an
optimized design and fabrication method for targeted drug delivery applications. These …

Bioengineered and biohybrid bacteria-based systems for drug delivery

Z Hosseinidoust, B Mostaghaci, O Yasa… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2016 - Elsevier
The use of bacterial cells as agents of medical therapy has a long history. Research that was
ignited over a century ago with the accidental infection of cancer patients has matured into a …