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Recent Advances in the Emergence of Nanorobotics in Medicine

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The manipulation of matter at atomic, molecular and/or supramolecular level has emerged as a revolutionary strategy known as nanotechnology. It brings together many fields of science, such as physics, chemistry, biology, material science, and engineering, allowing us to create nano-sized devices that work with ultra-high precision and had the best efficiency. Basically, in these devices, the nanomaterials possess new radical properties that ordinary structures do not exhibit. Therefore, the nanodevices offer significant advantages in their usage over the conventional materials. In the field of biomedical applications of these devices, they have demonstrated a promising result regarding the treatment of diseases and device-based drug delivery systems. Furthermore, these nanodevices have been approved for clinical use. This chapter discusses the emergence of nanorobotics in the field of medicine as a new cutting-edge tool for the treatment of diseases, challenges in their manufacturing, types of nanorobots, and diversity in their potential applications.

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The Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, Nano Mission, supported this work under Grant SR/NM/NB-1038/2016.

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Wani, T.U., Raza, S.N., Khan, N.A., Sheikh, F.A. (2020). Recent Advances in the Emergence of Nanorobotics in Medicine. In: Sheikh, F. (eds) Application of Nanotechnology in Biomedical Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5622-7_7

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