Microrobots for minimally invasive medicine

BJ Nelson, IK Kaliakatsos… - Annual review of …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Microrobots have the potential to revolutionize many aspects of medicine. These untethered,
wirelessly controlled and powered devices will make existing therapeutic and diagnostic …

The rise of robots in surgical environments during COVID-19

A Zemmar, AM Lozano, BJ Nelson - Nature Machine Intelligence, 2020 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our world and impacted multiple layers of our
society. All frontline workers and in particular those in direct contact with patients have been …

How should microrobots swim?

JJ Abbott, KE Peyer, MC Lagomarsino… - … journal of Robotics …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Microrobots have the potential to dramatically change many aspects of medicine by
navigating through bodily fluids to perform targeted diagnosis and therapy. Researchers …

MR-compatible devices

J Kucharczyk, CL Truwit, H Liu, ME Moseley - US Patent 7,048,716, 2006 - Google Patents
380) least one of the at least tWo microcatheters being connected to a source of liquid
material to be delivered to the organism and another of the at least tWo microcatheters being …

Fabrication and characterization of magnetic microrobots for three‐dimensional cell culture and targeted transportation

S Kim, F Qiu, S Kim, A Ghanbari, C Moon… - Advanced …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Medical microrobots are being widely studied for specific applications, such as targeted drug
delivery, biopsy, hyperthermia, radioactive therapy, scaffolding, in-vivo ablation, stenting …

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 …

Image-integrated magnetic actuation systems for localization and remote actuation of medical miniature robots: A survey

X Du, J Yu - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Magnetic miniature robots are promising tools for minimally invasive and noninvasive
therapy. Constructing systems with actuation–perception loops is an essential step to …

Method and apparatus using shaped field of repositionable magnet to guide implant

WM Blume, RC Ritter, PR Werp, BJ Hogg - US Patent 6,507,751, 2003 - Google Patents
Methods and apparatuses for displaying and using a shaped field of a repositionable
magnet to move, guide, and/or steer a magnetic seed or catheter in living tissue for …

Interstitial heating technologies

PR Stauffer, CJ Diederich… - Thermoradiotherapy and …, 1995 - Springer
Invasive interstitial heating techniques offer a number of advantages over external heating
approaches for localizing heat into small tumors at depth. Over the past two decades, nine …

Targeted drug delivery technology using untethered microrobots: A review

D Jang, J Jeong, H Song… - Journal of Micromechanics …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Targeted drug delivery is a promising application of microrobots owing to the capability of
the microrobots to access nearly every region of the human body through the circulatory …