Robotic wireless capsule endoscopy: recent advances and upcoming technologies

Q Cao, R Deng, Y Pan, R Liu, Y Chen, G Gong… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) offers a non-invasive evaluation of the digestive system,
eliminating the need for sedation and the risks associated with conventional endoscopic …

End-to-end design of ingestible electronics

A Abdigazy, M Arfan, G Lazzi, C Sideris… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Ingestible electronics can potentially be used to track and treat gastrointestinal diseases in
real time. In the past decade, substantial improvements have been made to ingestible …

Magnetically actuated medical robots: An in vivo perspective

BJ Nelson, S Gervasoni, PWY Chiu… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of magnetic fields and field gradients to move magnetic material and devices within
the human body has a surprisingly long history. Over the past two decades, there has been …

Magnetically actuated capsule robots: A review

W Chen, J Sui, C Wang - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Capsule endoscopy is a procedure that uses a tiny wireless camera inside a capsule
endoscope to capture pictures of the patient's gastrointestinal tract for diagnosis …

Design and control of a magnetically-actuated capsule robot with biopsy function

D Ye, J Xue, S Yuan, F Zhang, S Song… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Wireless capsule endoscopy has been well used for gastrointestinal (GI) tract
diagnosis. However, it can only obtain images and cannot take samples of GI tract tissues. In …

Smart pills for gastrointestinal diagnostics and therapy

G Cummins - Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Ingestible smart pills have the potential to be a powerful clinical tool in the diagnosis and
treatment of gastrointestinal disease. Though examples of this technology, such as capsule …

Smart capsules for sensing and sampling the gut: status, challenges and prospects

M Rehan, I Al-Bahadly, DG Thomas, W Young… - Gut, 2024 - gut.bmj.com
Smart capsules are develo** at a tremendous pace with a promise to become effective
clinical tools for the diagnosis and monitoring of gut health. This field emerged in the early …

Deep neural network approach in human-like redundancy optimization for anthropomorphic manipulators

H Su, W Qi, C Yang, A Aliverti, G Ferrigno… - IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Human-like behavior has emerged in the robotics area for improving the quality of Human-
Robot Interaction (HRI). For the human-like behavior imitation, the kinematic map** …

[HTML][HTML] A novel biopsy capsule robot based on high-speed cutting tissue

Z Song, W Zhang, W Zhang, D Paolo - Cyborg and Bionic Systems, 2022 - spj.science.org
The capsule robot (CR) is a promising endoscopic method in gastrointestinal diagnosis
because of its low discomfort to users. Most CRs are used to acquire image information only …

Medical microrobot—A drug delivery capsule endoscope with active locomotion and drug release mechanism: Proof of concept

KT Nguyen, MC Hoang, E Choi, B Kang… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
This paper presents a robotic capsule endoscope integrated a targeted drug delivery
module (DDM) for digestive diseases treatments. The capsule with a big permanent magnet …