ADI Communications & CCTV UK News: First Ciliary Stroke Motion Microrobots

Monday, 19 September 2016

First Ciliary Stroke Motion Microrobots

A research team led by Professor Hongsoo Choi developed microrobots with high propulsion efficiency in highly-viscous fluid environments, applying propulsion techniques that mimic the ciliary stroke motion of paramecia.

The research team at DGIST developed ciliary microrobots with high propulsion efficiency in highly-viscous fluid environments in the human body such as blood by mimicking the movement of paramecia’s cilia. The ciliary microrobots are for chemical and cell delivery that can be precisely controlled and that move via paramecium-like ciliary motion.

Professor Choi’s research team succeeded in fabricating the world’s first ciliary microrobots utilizing ultra-fine three-dimensional processing technology and asymmetric magnetic drive technology by applying microorganism’s ciliary movement, which thus far had only been theorized but never put into practice.