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Robotics for Cell Manipulation and Characterization provides fundamental principles underpinning robotic cell manipulation and characterization, state-of-the-art technical advances in micro/nano robotics, new discoveries of cell biology enabled by robotic systems, and their applications in clinical diagnosis and treatment. This book covers several areas, including robotics, control, computer vision, biomedical engineering and life sciences using understandable figures and tables to enhance readers’ comprehension and pinpoint challenges and opportunities for biological and biomedical research.
This book introduces state-of-the-art robotic techniques to achieve cell manipulation and characterization, and presents their applications in areas such as in vitro fertilization, tissue engineering, cell mechanics, and health monitoring. A variety of enabling techniques are described, including computer vision, sensing and control, and field modeling. The topics in this book include:
reviews the development of robotic cell manipulation and characterization, and outlooks its future direction.
discusses the application of force sensing in precise cell injection with an aim to achieve minimal cell damage.
describes robotic orientation control and enucleation of cells by magnetically driven microrobots, providing a compact and high-throughput cell manipulation platform.
introduces the use of robotic cell manipulation for in vitro fertilization, with emerging techniques to reduce cell deformation and increase success rate.
discusses robotic cell transport in tissue engineering, with the aim of advancing regenerative medicine.
describes robotic intracellular biopsy, which expands the manipulation scale to subcellular level.
introduces robotic cell manipulation with optical tweezers, providing a noncontact manipulation strategy.
discusses magnetically driven robots used inside the human body for clinical treatment, allowing access to regions not accessible by traditional surgical tools.
describes robotic cell injection to characterize cell response to drug molecules for pharmaceutical applications.
introduces the recent development of applying electrical fields for cell separation and characterization