Advances of medical nanorobots for future cancer treatments

X Kong, P Gao, J Wang, Y Fang, KC Hwang - Journal of Hematology & …, 2023 - Springer
Early detection and diagnosis of many cancers is very challenging. Late stage detection of a
cancer always leads to high mortality rates. It is imperative to develop novel and more …

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 …

Smart materials for microrobots

F Soto, E Karshalev, F Zhang… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Over the past 15 years, the field of microrobotics has exploded with many research groups
from around the globe contributing to numerous innovations that have led to exciting new …

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 …

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 …

Microrobots for targeted delivery and therapy in digestive system

Y Wang, J Shen, S Handschuh-Wang, M Qiu, S Du… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Untethered miniature robots enable targeted delivery and therapy deep inside the
gastrointestinal tract in a minimally invasive manner. By combining actuation systems and …

Multifunctional biohybrid magnetite microrobots for imaging-guided therapy

X Yan, Q Zhou, M Vincent, Y Deng, J Yu, J Xu, T Xu… - Science robotics, 2017 - science.org
Magnetic microrobots and nanorobots can be remotely controlled to propel in complex
biological fluids with high precision by using magnetic fields. Their potential for controlled …

Medical micro/nanorobots in complex media

Z Wu, Y Chen, D Mukasa, OS Pak, W Gao - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Medical micro/nanorobots have received tremendous attention over the past decades owing
to their potential to be navigated into hard-to-reach tissues for a number of biomedical …

Magnetic actuation methods in bio/soft robotics

N Ebrahimi, C Bi, DJ Cappelleri, G Ciuti… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, magnetism has gained an enormous amount of interest among researchers
for actuating different sizes and types of bio/soft robots, which can be via an electromagnetic …