Mobile Micro/Nano Robots

Dear Colleagues,

Mobile microrobotics, as an emerging robotics field, has a great potential to revolutionize modern medicine via enabling minimally invasive interventions at hard-to-reach and delicate inner body locations. Miniaturization down to submicron scale with on-board powering, sensing, control, and computational capabilities, and application-specific medical functions is one of the major scientific challenges in the mobile microrobotics field. Different design and manufacturing approaches, including biohybrid and synthetic, have been utilized to effectively miniaturize functional machines (robots) with powering, sensing, and control capabilities. This Special Issue welcomes submissions from all areas of the microrobotics field, with a special focus on communications and mini-reviews presenting the current state-of-the-art progress in biohybrid and synthetic micro/nano robot designs with different medical functionalities, such as cell manipulation, diagnostic, therapeutic delivery, and microsurgery.

Dr. Oncay Yasa
Guest Editor

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• Biohybrid microrobots
• Catalytic microrobots
• Magnetic microrobots
• Medical microrobots
• Single-cell manipulation
• Targeted therapeutic delivery
• Biomaterials for microrobotics