Herein, recent advances, current limitations, and open challenges in the design, modeling,
and control of continuum robots are discussed. Thanks to their lean bodies, these robots …

The magnetic field has unique advantages in manipulating miniature robots working inside
the human body, such as high transparency to biological tissue and good controllability for …

Treating vascular diseases in the brain requires access to the affected region inside the
body. This is usually accomplished through a minimally invasive technique that involves the …

In minimally invasive endovascular procedures, surgeons rely on catheters with low
dexterity and high aspect ratios to reach an anatomical target. However, the environment …

Scientists around the world have long aimed to produce miniature robots that can be
controlled inside the human body to aid doctors in identifying and treating diseases. Such …

Small-scale magnetic soft-bodied robots can be designed to operate based on different
locomotion modes to navigate and function inside unstructured, confined and varying …

The unequal distribution of medical resources and scarcity of experienced practitioners
confine access to bronchoscopy primarily to well-equipped hospitals in developed regions …

Magnetically manipulated interventional robotic systems offer outstanding advantages for
improving vascular interventions, including minimizing radiation exposure to physicians and …

Soft magnetic structures having a non‐uniform magnetization profile can achieve multimodal
locomotion that is helpful to operate in confined spaces. However, incorporating such …

With remote magnetic steering capabilities, magnetically actuated guidewires have proven
their potential in minimally invasive medical procedures. Existing magnetic steering …