Yilan Xu
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2
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About
Yilan Xu is pioneering the frontier of wireless millimeter-scale soft robotics for biomedical applications, with a focus on creating miniature machines capable of navigating and operating within the human body’s most challenging environments. Her research centers on developing magnetically actuated soft robots that can climb wet, slippery tissue surfaces and perform in situ physiological sensing. In her landmark 2023 paper, "Wireless Millimeter-Size Soft Climbing Robots With Omnidirectional Steerability on Tissue Surfaces" (25 citations), Xu introduced the first soft climbing robot capable of overcoming gravity on soft, wet tissues—a critical breakthrough for minimally invasive targeted medical operations inside enclosed body cavities. Complementing this, her work "Sensing Mucus Physiological Property In Situ by Wireless Millimeter‐Scale Soft Robots" (23 citations) demonstrates how these tiny robots can measure mucus viscosity in real time, offering a non-invasive biomarker for inflammation and disease monitoring. With over 48 citations across these two foundational papers alone, Xu is establishing a new paradigm for wireless, tissue-interfacing microrobots that combine locomotion with diagnostic capability. Her achievements represent a significant step toward theranostic microrobots that can both navigate and sense their biological environment, promising transformative advances in precision medicine and gastrointestinal health monitoring.
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