Nanobots — tiny robots that can be injected into the body to perform medical procedures — are the stuff of science fiction. Swimming microrobots propelled by artificial flagella bring that fantasy closer to reality.
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Sitti, M. Voyage of the microrobots. Nature 458, 1121–1122 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/4581121a
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