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Lei Bi is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of soft robotics and bioanalytical chemistry, with a focus on magnetic soft robots and single-cell analysis. Their most influential work, "Magnetic soft robots: Design, actuation, and function" (2022, 111 citations), has become a foundational reference in the field, offering a comprehensive framework for developing untethered, wirelessly controlled soft robots for biomedical applications. Bi also made a landmark contribution to single-cell metabolomics with their development of a robotic micromanipulation system integrated with mass spectrometry (2021, 19 citations), achieving the first-ever automated platform for precise, high-throughput metabolite analysis at the single-cell level—a breakthrough that addresses critical challenges in cellular heterogeneity studies. Additionally, Bi has explored machine vision for underwater vehicle pipeline inspection (2022). With over 130 total citations, their work bridges robotics and analytical chemistry, enabling new frontiers in minimally invasive surgery, targeted drug delivery, and cellular diagnostics. Bi’s innovations are shaping the future of intelligent, bio-inspired robotic systems.