Motion-directed microrobots for targeted drug delivery

Researchers have created tiny ‘microbots’ that are able to move and react in a fashion similar to bacteria, according to a report from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.

Bacteria use flagella to move, directed by stimuli like sources of light or the earth’s magnetic field. Researchers have developed synthetic microrobots with motility and phototaxis, mimicking the bacteria’s  movement and sense of direction.

“Evolution has taken enormous efforts to endow motile bacteria with the ability to orient themselves,” Clemens Bechinger, lead researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the University of Stuttgart, said in prepared remarks.

Nature is too complex to copy directly. “Instead, we are developing microswimmers that are capable of phototaxis with minimal effort,” Bechinger explained.

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