According to the Science and Technology Daily, the medical community has long been dedicated to developing microrobots capable of precise “targeted drug delivery” to achieve targeted therapy. Now, a research team from ETH Zurich in Switzerland has developed a microrobot that can navigate accurately “upstream” in blood vessels. In animal experiments, the team validated the … Read more
Dr. Katharina Zeissler, editor of the prestigious international journal Nature Electronics, highlights: Published in Nature Electronics (2025, Vol. 8, Page 879) Sub-millimeter robots with autonomous capabilities show great potential in environmental monitoring and biomedical applications. However, these robots need to possess multiple functions, including perception, motion control, and wireless communication with other robots. Due to … Read more
There is an old Chinese saying that “all medicine is three parts poison.” Common drug delivery methods resemble indiscriminate rainfall; once the drug enters the body, it spreads throughout with the blood circulation. While it can act on the lesions, it inevitably affects healthy tissues as well. This “inflicting a thousand injuries to oneself while … Read more
In 1966, a science fiction film titled Fantastic Voyage was released in the United States. In the film, to save a scientist whose brain blood vessels were damaged and in critical condition, five doctors were miniaturized to a fraction of a millimeter and injected into the body to travel to the brain to repair the … Read more
Recently, Associate Professor Wu Yichuan from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and his team focused on the key challenges faced by wireless soft microrobots during development, particularly the difficulties in achieving high mobility and robustness. They developed a wireless soft robot weighing only about 1 gram and measuring 2 centimeters in … Read more
Background Introduction Can you imagine? A robot smaller than a hair strand that can “navigate itself” inside the body, report its location in real-time, and precisely “burn” tumor cells? This is not a science fiction scenario, but the latest research published in Advanced Materials. This microrobot, known as TriMag, disrupts traditional medicine with three “superpowers”: … Read more
Magnetic microrobots hold great potential in drug delivery, disease diagnosis, and minimally invasive surgery. However, two key challenges hinder their clinical translation: the first is achieving scalable and precise manufacturing, and the second is enabling non-invasive imaging and tracking within deep biological tissues. Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI), as a cutting-edge safe imaging technology, addresses these … Read more
Click the blue text to follow us immediately The research was conducted by Rujie Sun and his team from Imperial College London, and the paper was published in the journal “Advanced Materials”. This study introduces a novel manufacturing technique for filling microrobots, known as Microfluidic Loading and Immersion Sealing (MLDS). This innovative approach aims to … Read more
This article is original from the Translational Medicine Network, please indicate the source when reprinting. Author: Zhuzi Introduction: Gastric wall injury is a common gastrointestinal issue, affecting approximately 12% of the global population to varying degrees. Bioprinting technology delivers new cells directly to the injury site to repair tissue, providing a potentially useful method for … Read more
Introduction: In this revolution of micro-scale manufacturing, templates are discarded, magnetic fields are reinterpreted, and “amber” has become the source of inspiration for structural programming. Image credit: Shan-Gang Wei (Photographer: Wei Shangang) Micro-magnetic-driven flexible devices are crucial for the development and application of minimally invasive medical technology, flexible smart electronic devices, and microrobotics. Despite significant … Read more