Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of recent progress in the development of medical microrobots. Design/methodology/approach – The paper first considers some of the critical aspects of medical microrobot design and then illustrates the present state of development...

Purpose – The paper aims to provide a technical review of recent developments in microrobots, together with a less detailed consideration of nanorobotics. Design/methodology/approach – Following a brief introduction, this paper describes a number of recently reported microrobot development...