TY - JOUR
T1 - Magnetic Actuation Methods in Bio/Soft Robotics
AU - Ebrahimi, Nafiseh
AU - Bi, Chenghao
AU - Cappelleri, David J.
AU - Ciuti, Gastone
AU - Conn, Andrew T.
AU - Faivre, Damien
AU - Habibi, Neda
AU - Hošovský, Alexander
AU - Iacovacci, Veronica
AU - Khalil, Islam S.M.
AU - Magdanz, Veronika
AU - Misra, Sarthak
AU - Pawashe, Chytra
AU - Rashidifar, Rasoul
AU - Soto-Rodriguez, Paul Eduardo David
AU - Fekete, Zoltan
AU - Jafari, Amir
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported, in part, by National Science Foundation NSF, Disability and Rehabilitation DARE program‐Award number #1840834.
Funding Information:
This work was supported, in part, by National Science Foundation NSF, Disability and Rehabilitation DARE program-Award number #1840834.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Wiley-VCH GmbH
PY - 2021/3/10
Y1 - 2021/3/10
N2 - In recent years, magnetism has gained an enormous amount of interest among researchers for actuating different sizes and types of bio/soft robots, which can be via an electromagnetic-coil system, or a system of moving permanent magnets. Different actuation strategies are used in robots with magnetic actuation having a number of advantages in possible realization of microscale robots such as bioinspired microrobots, tetherless microrobots, cellular microrobots, or even normal size soft robots such as electromagnetic soft robots and medical robots. This review provides a summary of recent research in magnetically actuated bio/soft robots, discussing fabrication processes and actuation methods together with relevant applications in biomedical area and discusses future prospects of this way of actuation for possible improvements in performance of different types of bio/soft robots.
AB - In recent years, magnetism has gained an enormous amount of interest among researchers for actuating different sizes and types of bio/soft robots, which can be via an electromagnetic-coil system, or a system of moving permanent magnets. Different actuation strategies are used in robots with magnetic actuation having a number of advantages in possible realization of microscale robots such as bioinspired microrobots, tetherless microrobots, cellular microrobots, or even normal size soft robots such as electromagnetic soft robots and medical robots. This review provides a summary of recent research in magnetically actuated bio/soft robots, discussing fabrication processes and actuation methods together with relevant applications in biomedical area and discusses future prospects of this way of actuation for possible improvements in performance of different types of bio/soft robots.
KW - magnetic bioinspired micromanipulation
KW - magnetic drug delivery
KW - magnetic microrobots
KW - magnetically guided capsule endoscopy
KW - magnetotactic bacteria
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U2 - 10.1002/adfm.202005137
DO - 10.1002/adfm.202005137
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85097962852
VL - 31
JO - Advanced functional materials
JF - Advanced functional materials
SN - 1616-301X
IS - 11
M1 - 2005137
ER -