Papers
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Total Citations
812
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About
Maria Guix is a pioneering roboticist and biomedical engineer whose research sits at the cutting edge of microrobotics, biohybrid systems, and smart materials. Her work focuses on designing microscale robots capable of navigating complex biological environments, with a long-term vision of transforming minimally invasive medicine and drug delivery. Guix has made landmark contributions to the field of soft microrobotics, demonstrating how materials mimicking living tissues can be engineered into flexible, adaptive robotic platforms — a vision articulated in her highly cited 2018 review on swimming microrobots (207 citations). Her development of biohybrid robots — machines that integrate living muscle tissue with synthetic components — represents a particularly bold research frontier, earning widespread recognition through influential publications in 2021 and 2022 totaling over 260 citations combined. She has also advanced fabrication techniques such as two-photon polymerization and magnetic alignment strategies for precise microrobot design and tracking. More recently, Guix has explored aging skeletal muscle models for drug testing, bridging robotics and biomedical research. With over 760 citations across her career, her multidisciplinary contributions continue to shape the future of intelligent, bioinspired robotic systems.
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Top Papers
- 1Swimming Microrobots: Soft, Reconfigurable, and Smart207 citations · 2018
- 2Biohybrid soft robots with self-stimulating skeletons144 citations · 2021
- 3Biohybrid robots: recent progress, challenges, and perspectives118 citations · 2022
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