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Jinyao Tang is a pioneering researcher in the field of micro/nanorobotics, with a primary focus on developing light-driven and magnetically powered micro/nanomotors (MNMs) for biomedical applications. His work addresses the critical challenge of creating untethered, miniaturized machines capable of operating at the cellular scale, bridging the gap between traditional macroscopic motors and molecular motors. Tang’s most cited paper, “Light-Driven Micro/Nanomotor for Promising Biomedical Tools” (2018, 288 citations), establishes foundational principles for using light as a flexible propulsion and signaling mechanism, envisioning these tiny robots for noninvasive tasks in healthcare, nanomanufacturing, and biosensing. He further advanced the field with his work on light hybrid micro/nano-robots (2022, 36 citations), emphasizing the encoding of functional signals through light. More recently, Tang has expanded into magnetically powered heterogeneous swarms, demonstrating their use as controllable immunosorbent probes for active motion-enhanced chemiluminescence detection (2025) and as MOF-based microwheel-robots for triglyceride degradation (2025). His research consistently pushes the boundaries of active motion control, offering transformative potential for targeted drug delivery, environmental remediation, and cellular-level manipulation.