Nature Communications (Feb 2023)

Medical microrobots in reproductive medicine from the bench to the clinic

  • Richard Nauber,
  • Sandhya R. Goudu,
  • Maren Goeckenjan,
  • Martin Bornhäuser,
  • Carla Ribeiro,
  • Mariana Medina-Sánchez

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36215-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Microrobotics is an emerging technology with wide implications for medical fields, such as assisted reproduction. Here the authors show how the key challenges regarding materials, processes and engineering as well as ethical and regulatory implications can be addressed towards a clinical adoption.