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Voyage of the microrobots

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Nanobots — tiny robots that can be injected into the body to perform medical procedures — are the stuff of science fiction. Swimming microrobots propelled by artificial flagella bring that fantasy closer to reality.

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  1. Metin Sitti is in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 320 Scaife Hall, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213-3890, USA. sitti@cmu.edu,

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Sitti, M. Voyage of the microrobots. Nature 458, 1121–1122 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/4581121a

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