The New Science of Microscopic Robots

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Injecting tiny remote controlled robots into the human body isn’t all that far-fetched any more. What tiny robots are scientists working on? How far along is the technology? And what could they be good for?

The Hu et al paper which I talk about at 3 mins 5 seconds is here: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25443

The Miskin et al paper which I mention at 3 minutes 51 seconds is here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2626-9

The Yamanaka and Arai paper that I mention at 5 mins 10 seconds is this: https://robomechjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40648-019-0146-x And a short video about this is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2h-zkKmWAs

The paper about magnetotactic bacteria which I mention at 5 mins 45 seconds is here: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.2402221

The paper about nanobots that target plastic waste which I mention at 6 mins 44 seconds is here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acsami.1c04559

The paper about the hybrid robot that I mention at 8 mins 26 seconds is here: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.aat0485

Correction: At 9 minutes 33 seconds I should have said "this species" (not "these cells").

Finally, the papers about xenobots that I talk about around 10 minutes are here: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1910837117 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2112672118

Many thanks to Jordi Busqué for helping with this video http://jordibusque.com/

0:00 Intro 0:35 The challenge of making robots tiny 2:53 Examples of tiny robots 9:24 Xenobots 11:06 Sponsor message

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