ReviewMicromachines2022
Recent Process in Microrobots: From Propulsion to Swarming for Biomedical Applications.
Review in Micromachines, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.
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19 citing papers in PubMed.
- Next-generation biomedical nanorobots: active design, intelligent control, and translational opportunities in regenerative and minimally invasive medicine.Journal of nanobiotechnology · 2026Review
- Recent Advances in Collective Behaviors of Micro/Nanomotor Swarms.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026Review
- A flexible automated magnetic microrobot assembly system.Journal of micro-bio robotics · 2026Article
- Regulating nanomedicines: challenges, opportunities, and the path forward.Nanomedicine (London, England) · 2025Review
- Surface motion dynamics and swimming control of planar magnetic microswimmers.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Metareview: a survey of active matter reviews.The European physical journal. E, Soft matter · 2025Review
- Propulsion Mechanisms in Magnetic Microrobotics: From Single Microrobots to Swarms.Micromachines · 2025Review
- Active Microrobots for Dual Removal of Biofilms via Chemical and Physical Mechanisms.ACS applied materials & interfaces · 2025Article
- Alignment, Rising, Sticking, and Phototaxis: Modulating the Behavior of Hematite Micropeanuts.Advanced materials interfaces · 2025Article
- Advances in micro-/nanorobots for cancer diagnosis and treatment: propulsion mechanisms, early detection, and cancer therapy.Frontiers in chemistry · 2025Review
- Magnetic Microrobot Swarms with Polymeric Hands Catching Bacteria and Microplastics in Water.ACS nano · 2024Article
- Multi-Stimuli-Responsive Tadpole-like Polymer/Lipid Janus Microrobots for Advanced Smart Material Applications.ACS applied materials & interfaces · 2024Article
- Upstream mobility and swarming of light activated micromotors.Materials advances · 2024Article
- Intelligent Navigation of a Magnetic Microrobot with Model-Free Deep Reinforcement Learning in a Real-World Environment.Micromachines · 2024Article
- Doxorubicin-Loaded Microrobots for Targeted Drug Delivery and Anticancer Therapy.Advanced healthcare materials · 2023Article
- Perspectives on Multiscale Colloid-Based Materials for Biomedical Applications.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2023Review
- Targeted Vibration-Induced Necrosis in Liver Cancer Cells using Paramagnetic Microrobots.... International Conference on Manipulation Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS). International Conference on Manipulation Automation and Robotics at Small Scales · 2023Article
- Advances of medical nanorobots for future cancer treatments.Journal of hematology & oncology · 2023Review
- Navigation and Control of Motion Modes with Soft Microrobots at Low Reynolds Numbers.Micromachines · 2023Article
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Abstract
Recently, robots have assisted and contributed to the biomedical field. Scaling down the size of robots to micro/nanoscale can increase the accuracy of targeted medications and decrease the danger of invasive operations in human surgery. Inspired by the motion pattern and collective behaviors of the tiny biological motors in nature, various kinds of sophisticated and programmable microrobots are fabricated with the ability for cargo delivery, bio-imaging, precise operation, etc. In this review, four types of propulsion-magnetically, acoustically, chemically/optically and hybrid driven-and their corresponding features have been outlined and categorized. In particular, the locomotion of these micro/nanorobots, as well as the requirement of biocompatibility, transportation efficiency, and controllable motion for applications in the complex human body environment should be considered. We discuss applications of different propulsion mechanisms in the biomedical field, list their individual benefits, and suggest their potential growth paths.
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