Medical microrobots

V Iacovacci, E Diller, D Ahmed… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
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 …

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 actuation systems for miniature robots: A review

Z Yang, L Zhang - Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A magnetic field, which is transparent and relatively safe to biological tissue, is a powerful
tool for remote actuation and wireless control of magnetic devices. Furthermore, miniature …

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 methods in robotics

JJ Abbott, E Diller, AJ Petruska - Annual Review of Control …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The goal of this article is to provide a thorough introduction to the state of the art in magnetic
methods for remote-manipulation and wireless-actuation tasks in robotics. The article …

Enabling the future of colonoscopy with intelligent and autonomous magnetic manipulation

JW Martin, B Scaglioni, JC Norton… - Nature machine …, 2020 - nature.com
Early diagnosis of colorectal cancer substantially improves survival. However, over half of
cases are diagnosed late due to the demand for colonoscopy—the 'gold standard'for …

A survey on swarm microrobotics

L Yang, J Yu, S Yang, B Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The small size and wireless actuation of microrobots make them potential candidates for
minimally invasive medicine. To advance microrobots to future clinical application …

A Human‐Scale Clinically Ready Electromagnetic Navigation System for Magnetically Responsive Biomaterials and Medical Devices

S Gervasoni, N Pedrini, T Rifai, C Fischer… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetic navigation systems are used to precisely manipulate magnetically responsive
materials enabling the realization of new minimally invasive procedures using magnetic …

State of the art in actuation of micro/nanorobots for biomedical applications

A Elnaggar, S Kang, M Tian, B Han… - Small Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The emergence of micro/nanorobotics stands poised to revolutionize various biomedical
applications, given its potential to offer precision, reduced invasiveness, and enhanced …

[HTML][HTML] Electronic structure and magnetic anisotropy design of functional metal complexes

A Raza, M Perfetti - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Chemical guidelines to target a well-defined electronic structure and magnetic anisotropy
are of primary importance in physics, chemistry and biology. Our literature overview …