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Recent Progress in Medical Miniature Robots

from Bench to Bedside

  • 1st Edition - October 22, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Li Zhang, Philip Wai Yan Chiu, Kai Fung Chan
  • Language: English

Recent Progress in Medical Miniature Robots: From Bench to Bedside serves as aspecialized and dedicated reference on miniature robots and their related biomedicalapp… Read more

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Description

Recent Progress in Medical Miniature Robots: From Bench to Bedside serves as a
specialized and dedicated reference on miniature robots and their related biomedical
applications. This book presents the latest achievements in the research of miniature
robotics and introduces a variety of miniature robots on the milli-/micro-/nano-scale, with
tethered/untethered and individual/swarm designs, describing the various types and
analyzing the underlying principles per class. Recent Progress in Medical Miniature Robots:
From Bench to Bedside is suitable for clinicians, academicians, healthcare professionals,
researchers, students, engineers, and scientists working in the field of medical miniature
robots and related biomedical applications.

Key features

  • Provides authoritative coverage of the fundamental research and medical applications
    of miniature robotics, from mm-scale to nm-scale and with tethered/untethered and
    individual/swarm designs
  • Focuses on the state-of-the-art research and up-to-date results of medical miniature robots
  • Describes the key medical applications of miniature robots, and provides insights
    into the ongoing research, and speculates on the future directions of medical
    miniature robots

Readership

Researchers, graduates, and post-graduate students active in the field micro robotics, Medical doctors interested in minimal invasive surgery

Table of contents

1. Flow-assisted and flow-driven endovascular medical instruments

2. Magnetically controlled continuum miniature robot

3. Magnetic guidewire/catheter for endovascular treatment

4. A new drive system for microagent controls in targeted therapy based on rotating gradient magnetic fields

5. Innovation in microrobotics for the treatment of Asherman’s syndrome: A perspective study

6. Design and fabrication of a magnetic actuation miniature soft robot for biological sampling

7. Functionalization of microrobots for biomedical applications

8. Clinical imaging of miniature robots in relevant biological scenarios

9. Magnetic microrobots from individual to collective steering

10. Sperm-micromotors for assisted reproduction and drug delivery

11. Untethered microrobots for minimally invasive removal of blood clots

12. Micro-/nanorobots for combating biofilm infections

13. Magnetic actuation of flexible and soft robotic systems for medical applications

14. In vitro diagnostics via micro/nanorobotic platform

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 25, 2024
  • Language: English

About the editors

LZ

Li Zhang

Li Zhang is a professor at the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering and a professor by courtesy at the Department of Surgery at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He is a director at the SIAT—CUHK Joint Laboratory of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, and a group leader in the Multi-scale Medical Robotics Center (MRC), InnoHK, at the Hong Kong Science Park. Dr. Zhang’s research interests include small-scale robotics and biomedical applications. He is elected as FIEEE, FRSC, FAAIA, FHKIE, a member of the Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences, and an Outstanding Fellow of the Faculty of Engineering at CUHK.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering and Professor by courtesy, Department of Surgery at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

PC

Philip Wai Yan Chiu

Philip Wai Yan Chiu is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Shun Hing Education and Charity Fund Professor of Robotic Surgery at CUHK, and the Director of MRC and Chow Yuk Ho Technology Centre for Innovative Medicine of CUHK. He is also the Director of Endoscopy at Prince of Wales Hospital and the New Territories East Cluster of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority. His research interests include minimally invasive robotic esophagectomy, novel endoscopic technologies for the diagnosis of early GI cancers, endoscopic surgery, and robotics for endoluminal surgery.
Affiliations and expertise
Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Shun Hing Education and Charity Fund Professor of Robotic Surgery, CUHK, Director of MRC and Chow Yuk Ho Technology Centre for Innovative Medicine of CUHK

KC

Kai Fung Chan

Kai Fung Chan is a research assistant professor at the Chow Yuk Ho Technology Centre for Innovative Medicine and MRC of CUHK. His research interests include medical miniature devices, micro-/nanorobotics, and translational medicine. He is also a co-founder of three start-up companies that are related to in vitro diagnostic devices, miniature medical devices, and medical microrobotic technologies.
Affiliations and expertise
Research assistant professor, Chow Yuk Ho Technology Centre for Innovative Medicine and MRC, CUHK

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