Zhengyu Lai
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About
Zhengyu Lai is pioneering the frontier of microrobotics, with a focus on magnetic actuation, soft robotics, and biomedical applications. His work has fundamentally advanced the independent control of multiple magnetic millirobots, achieving precise position control and path following—a critical step toward cooperative microrobot swarms for remote operations. Lai’s design of a quadruped soft microrobot with multimodal locomotion and cargo transport capabilities demonstrates how deformable structures can mimic biological versatility, while his bio-inspired robotic fish, with a flexible skeleton modeled after zebrafish, showcases elegant solutions for miniature swimming robots. Perhaps most notably, Lai has pushed into therapeutic frontiers by developing magnetic–acoustic sequentially actuated CAR T cell microrobots, enabling precision navigation and in situ antitumor immunoactivation—a breakthrough that marries robotics with cellular immunotherapy. With his most-cited paper garnering 199 citations, Lai’s research is not only highly influential but also directly addresses grand challenges in minimally invasive medicine and micromanipulation. His work stands at the intersection of materials science, control theory, and biomedical engineering, offering a compelling vision for the future of intelligent, untethered microsystems.
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