ArticleScience advances2022
Programmable aniso-electrodeposited modular hydrogel microrobots.
Article in Science advances, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.
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27 citing papers in PubMed.
- Hydrogel-Based Micro/Nanorobots for Advanced Biomedical Applications.Gels (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Magneto-X Effects in Magnetic Soft Materials and Their Applications.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Review
- Ultrasoft hydrogel immune millirobot with multimodal locomotion.Science advances · 2025Article
- Micro/nano-robotic medical device: preparation, actuation mechanisms and their applications in medicine.RSC advances · 2025Review
- A Magnetically Transformable Twisting Millirobot for Cargo Delivery at Low Reynolds Number.Advanced intelligent systems (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025Article
- Template-free 3D programmable magnetization of soft millirobots induced by interlayer stress.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Advancements in Micro/Nanorobots in Medicine: Design, Actuation, and Transformative Application.ACS omega · 2025Review
- Microrobotic Swarms for Cancer Therapy.Research (Washington, D.C.) · 2025Review
- Responsive Hydrogel-Based Modular Microrobots for Multi-Functional Micromanipulation.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2024Article
- Solvent-adaptive hydrogels with lamellar confinement cellular structure for programmable multimodal locomotion.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Oral administration microrobots for drug delivery.Bioactive materials · 2024Review
- Learning Soft Millirobot Multimodal Locomotion with Sim-to-Real Transfer.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- Light-driven soft microrobots based on hydrogels and LCEs: development and prospects.RSC advances · 2024Review
- Recent Advances in Microrobots Powered by Multi-Physics Field for Biomedical and Environmental Applications.Micromachines · 2024Review
- Single-step precision programming of decoupled multiresponsive soft millirobots.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- State of the Art in Actuation of Micro/Nanorobots for Biomedical Applications.Small science · 2024Article
- MARSBot: A Bristle-Bot Microrobot with Augmented Reality Steering Control for Wireless Structural Health Monitoring.Micromachines · 2024Article
- A magnetic multi-layer soft robot for on-demand targeted adhesion.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Double-Modal Locomotion of a Hydrogel Ultra-Soft Magnetic Miniature Robot with Switchable Forms.Cyborg and bionic systems (Washington, D.C.) · 2024Article
- Current status and future application of electrically controlled micro/nanorobots in biomedicine.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2024Review
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Abstract
Systems with programmable and complex shape morphing are highly desired in many fields wherein sensing, actuation, and manipulation must be performed. Living organisms use nonuniform distributions of their body structural composition to achieve diverse shape morphing, motion, and functionality. However, for the microrobot fabrication, these designs often involve complicated robotic architectures requiring time-consuming and arduous fabrication processes. This paper proposes a single-step aniso-electrodeposition method for fabricating modular microrobots (MMRs) with distinct functions in each modular segment. By programming the electric field, the microscale stripe-shaped structure can be endowed with diverse shape-morphing capabilities, such as spiraling, twisting, bending, and coiling. The proposed fabrication method can develop MMRs with multiple independent modules onto which cells, drugs, and magnetic nanoparticles can be loaded to achieve multifunctionality. Thus, MMRs can perform multiple tasks, such as propulsion, grasping, and object delivery, simultaneously under magnetic control and ionic and pH stimuli.
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