Soft Robots for the Delivery of Drugs
Miniaturized soft robots compliant to human tissues and organs improve efficiency of drug for both spatial and temporal targeting. Origami robots, sperm robots, nanorobots, robotic capsules, and soft multi-legged robots are some soft robots that have been investigated for their potential role in therapeutics and diagnosis. Intelligence, locomotion, and swarming behaviors of these soft robots have been used to actuate, sense, and manipulate delivery of active constituents to the target site. Use of soft and stretchable electronics, power sources, and sensors make them autonomous. Due to their excellent flexibility and adaptability, soft robots can easily navigate in the human body without causing any harm.
Soft robots are rapidly progressing with the advancements in soft materials, 3D printing technologies, soft sensors, soft electronics, soft power sources, human-machine interactions, and new algorithms. Significant challenges to developing soft robots include miniaturization, cost intensive technology, and requirement of high level of technical expertise. This book chapter focuses on some drug delivery attempts with soft robots, in particular for targeting drugs to a particular site and sustained delivery of drugs.
Banerjee, S., Saharan, V.A. (2022). Soft Robots for the Delivery of Drugs. In: Saharan, V.A. (eds) Computer Aided Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5180-9_13
a chapter in the book “Computer Aided Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery”:
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