Ai-driven autonomous microrobots for targeted medicine

Navigating medical microrobots through intricate vascular pathways is challenging. AI-driven microrobots that leverage reinforcement learning and generative algorithms could navigate the

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Programme (grant agreement no. 853309, SONOBOTS); the Swiss National Science Foundation under project funding MINT 2022 (grant agreement no. 213058) and Spark 2023 (grant agreement no.

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