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ArticleNanoscale2024

Steerable acoustically powered starfish-inspired microrobot.

Cornel Dillinger, Justin Knipper, Nitesh Nama, Daniel Ahmed

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Article in Nanoscale, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Micro/Nanorobots for Combating Brain Disorders: Challenges, Advances, and Perspectives.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  9. Ultrasound-activated cilia for biofilm control in indwelling medical devices.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  11. Multiorifice acoustic microrobot for boundary-free multimodal 3D swimming.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Cornel DillingerAcoustic Robotics and Systems Lab, Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland. dahmed@ethz.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1734-5713
Justin KnipperAcoustic Robotics and Systems Lab, Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland. dahmed@ethz.ch.
Nitesh NamaDepartment of Mechanical & Materials Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5249-4992
Daniel AhmedAcoustic Robotics and Systems Lab, Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland. dahmed@ethz.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0224-5293

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Soft polymeric microrobots that can be loaded with nanocargoes and driven

Identifiers

PMID37946510
PMCPMC10795801

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