MagnetoSperm: A Tiny Swimming Robot Inspired By Human Sperm, University of Twente Study

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Meet MagnetoSperm! No, it's not a precursor to a movie called 'X-Men: The Next Generation' ? it's a tiny, swimming robot inspired by sperm cells. Described in the journal Applied Physics Letters, such microrobots ? if further scaled down ? could become valuable tools for in vitro fertilization, delivering targeted drugs into the body or even performing minimally invasive surgical procedures.

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