Sitti Metin, Ceylan Hakan, Hu Wenqi, Giltinan Joshua, Turan Mehmet, Yim Sehyuk, Diller Eric
Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany, and also are with Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15238 USA.
Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany.
Proc IEEE Inst Electr Electron Eng. 2015 Feb;103(2):205-224. doi: 10.1109/JPROC.2014.2385105. Epub 2015 Mar 24.
Untethered robots miniaturized to the length scale of millimeter and below attract growing attention for the prospect of transforming many aspects of health care and bioengineering. As the robot size goes down to the order of a single cell, previously inaccessible body sites would become available for high-resolution and manipulations. This unprecedented direct access would enable an extensive range of minimally invasive medical operations. Here, we provide a comprehensive review of the current advances in biome dical untethered mobile milli/microrobots. We put a special emphasis on the potential impacts of biomedical microrobots in the near future. Finally, we discuss the existing challenges and emerging concepts associated with designing such a miniaturized robot for operation inside a biological environment for biomedical applications.
尺寸缩小到毫米及以下量级的无缆机器人，因其有望变革医疗保健和生物工程的诸多方面而受到越来越多的关注。随着机器人尺寸减小到单个细胞的量级，以前无法触及的身体部位将可用于高分辨率成像和操作。这种前所未有的直接接入将使广泛的微创医疗操作成为可能。在此，我们全面综述了生物医学无缆移动毫/微米机器人的当前进展。我们特别强调了生物医学微型机器人在不久的将来可能产生的影响。最后，我们讨论了与设计这种用于生物医学应用的、在生物环境中操作的小型化机器人相关的现有挑战和新兴概念。
