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 …

Trends in micro‐/nanorobotics: materials development, actuation, localization, and system integration for biomedical applications

B Wang, K Kostarelos, BJ Nelson… - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Micro‐/nanorobots (m‐bots) have attracted significant interest due to their suitability
for applications in biomedical engineering and environmental remediation. Particularly, their …

Autonomous environment-adaptive microrobot swarm navigation enabled by deep learning-based real-time distribution planning

L Yang, J Jiang, X Gao, Q Wang, Q Dou… - Nature Machine …, 2022 - nature.com
Navigating a large swarm of micro-/nanorobots is critical for potential targeted
delivery/therapy applications owing to the limited volume/function of a single microrobot, and …

Reconfigurable magnetic microrobot swarm: Multimode transformation, locomotion, and manipulation

H **e, M Sun, X Fan, Z Lin, W Chen, L Wang, L Dong… - Science robotics, 2019 - science.org
Swimming microrobots that are energized by external magnetic fields exhibit a variety of
intriguing collective behaviors, ranging from dynamic self-organization to coherent motion; …

Untethered small-scale machines for microrobotic manipulation: From individual and multiple to collective machines

Q Wang, J Zhang, J Yu, J Lang, Z Lyu, Y Chen… - Acs Nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Untethered small-scale machines (USSMs) that can actively adjust their motion,
deformation, and collective states in response to external stimuli have gained enormous …

Micro/nanorobotic swarms: from fundamentals to functionalities

J Law, J Yu, W Tang, Z Gong, X Wang, Y Sun - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Swarms, which stem from collective behaviors among individual elements, are commonly
seen in nature. Since two decades ago, scientists have been attempting to understand the …

Active generation and magnetic actuation of microrobotic swarms in bio-fluids

J Yu, D **, KF Chan, Q Wang, K Yuan… - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
In nature, various types of animals will form self-organised large-scale structures. Through
designing wireless actuation methods, microrobots can emulate natural swarm behaviours …

Ultra-extensible ribbon-like magnetic microswarm

J Yu, B Wang, X Du, Q Wang, L Zhang - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Various types of structures self-organised by animals exist in nature, such as bird flocks and
insect swarms, which stem from the local communications of vast numbers of limited …

Control and autonomy of microrobots: Recent progress and perspective

J Jiang, Z Yang, A Ferreira… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
After decades of development, microrobots have exhibited great application potential in the
biomedical field, such as minimally invasive surgery, drug delivery, and bio‐sensing …

Magnetic microswarm composed of porous nanocatalysts for targeted elimination of biofilm occlusion

Y Dong, L Wang, K Yuan, F Ji, J Gao, Z Zhang, X Du… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Biofilm is difficult to thoroughly cure with conventional antibiotics due to the high mechanical
stability and antimicrobial barrier resulting from extracellular polymeric substances …