Design and build of small-scale magnetic soft-bodied robots with multimodal locomotion

Z Ren, M Sitti - Nature protocols, 2024 - nature.com
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 …

Swarm autonomy: From agent functionalization to machine intelligence

Y Wang, H Chen, L **e, J Liu, L Zhang… - Advanced …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Swarm behaviors are common in nature, where individual organisms collaborate via
perception, communication, and adaptation. Emulating these dynamics, large groups of …

Multimodal locomotion and cargo transportation of magnetically actuated quadruped soft microrobots

C Huang, Z Lai, X Wu, T Xu - Cyborg and Bionic Systems, 2022 - spj.science.org
Untethered microrobots have attracted extensive attention due to their potential for
biomedical applications and micromanipulation at the small scale. Soft microrobots are of …

Magnetic–acoustic sequentially actuated CAR T cell microrobots for precision navigation and in situ antitumor immunoactivation

X Tang, Y Yang, M Zheng, T Yin, G Huang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Despite its clinical success, chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR T)‐cell immunotherapy
remains limited in solid tumors, owing to the harsh physical barriers and …

Double-modal locomotion of a hydrogel ultra-soft magnetic miniature robot with switchable forms

S Zhong, Z **n, Y Hou, Y Li, HW Huang… - Cyborg and Bionic …, 2024 - spj.science.org
Flexible miniature robots are expected to enter difficult-to-reach areas in vivo to carry out
targeted operations, attracting widespread attention. However, it is challenging for the …

Dynamic morphological transformations in soft architected materials via buckling instability encoded heterogeneous magnetization

N **a, D **, C Pan, J Zhang, Z Yang, L Su… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The geometric reconfigurations in three-dimensional morphable structures have a wide
range of applications in flexible electronic devices and smart systems with unusual …

Deep reinforcement learning framework-based flow rate rejection control of soft magnetic miniature robots

M Cai, Q Wang, Z Qi, D **, X Wu, T Xu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soft magnetic miniature robots (SMMRs) have potential biomedical applications due to their
flexible size and mobility to access confined environments. However, navigating the robot to …

Actuation and biomedical development of micro-/nanorobots–A review

S Zhao, D Sun, J Zhang, H Lu, Y Wang, R **ong… - Materials Today …, 2022 - Elsevier
Over the past 20 years, there has been considerable progress in the development of
research in the micro-/nanorobotics area. Through major, rapid, investment in the field and …

A magnetically controlled guidewire robot system with steering and propulsion capabilities for vascular interventional surgery

S Fu, B Chen, D Li, J Han, S Xu, S Wang… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetically manipulated interventional robotic systems offer outstanding advantages for
improving vascular interventions, including minimizing radiation exposure to physicians and …

Leader–follower formation control of magnetically actuated millirobots for automatic navigation

C Huang, T Xu, X Wu - IEEE/ASME Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multiple magnetically actuated small-scale robots enable cooperative tasks and have great
potential for many applications. In general, magnetic robots behave in the same way with the …