Robots - 4 News from the science department by Max-Planck-Gesellschaft for the healthcare industry

Robots - 4 News from the science department by Max-Planck-Gesellschaft for the healthcare industry

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Magnetic microalgae on a mission to become robots

Exciting potential for future innovations in biomedicine and beyond

19-Mar-2025 - Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems developed a single-cell green microalgae coated with magnetic material. This miniature robot was put to the test: would the microalgae with its magnetic coating be able to swim through narrow spaces and, additionally, in a viscous ...

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Pangolin the inspiration for medical robot

It could one day reach even the narrowest and most sensitive regions in the body in a minimally invasive and gentle way

23-Jun-2023 - Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart have developed a magnetically controlled soft medical robot with a unique, flexible structure inspired by the body of a pangolin. The robot is freely movable despite built-in hard metal components. Thus, depending on the ...

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On the spot drug delivery with light-controlled organic microswimmers

Science Fiction novelists couldn’t have come up with a crazier plot

03-Feb-2022 - Microrobots streaming through blood or through other fluids in our body which are driven by light, can carry drugs to cancer cells and drop off the medication on the spot. What sounds like a far-fetched fantasy, is however the short summary of a research project published in the journal Science ...

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Rolling into the deep

Microroller could to revolutionize the minimally invasive treatment of illnesses

25-May-2020 - A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in Stuttgart invented a tiny microrobot that resembles a white blood cell travelling through the circulatory system. It has the shape, the size and the moving capabilities of leukocytes and could perhaps be well ...

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