Papers
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Total Citations
993
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About
Donghoon Son is a pioneering robotics researcher whose work sits at the intersection of magnetic actuation, miniaturized medical robots, and soft robotics. Best known for his groundbreaking contributions to wireless capsule endoscopy and magnetically guided microrobots, Son has fundamentally advanced the field of minimally invasive medical interventions. His 2019 paper on magnetically actuated soft capsule endoscopes capable of performing fine-needle biopsies (218 citations) exemplifies his ability to translate complex engineering principles into clinically meaningful tools. Complementing this, his development of biocompatible hydrogel adhesive robots (188 citations) and tissue-penetrating millirobots navigable inside soft tissues (74 citations) demonstrates a consistent vision: enabling precise, wireless robotic action deep within the human body. Son has also made foundational methodological contributions, including a robust 5-D magnetic localization framework (165 citations) that underpins many subsequent robotic systems. Beyond medical robotics, his research spans soft robotic grippers, bioinspired adhesive microstructures optimized through machine learning, and magnetic micro-disk systems studied through information theory. With a career trajectory spanning welding robotics to cutting-edge biomedical microdevices, Son represents a rare combination of breadth and depth, producing work that is both technically rigorous and transformatively applied.
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Top Papers
- 1Magnetically Actuated Soft Capsule Endoscope for Fine-Needle Biopsy218 citations · 2019
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- 5Adaptive Self‐Sealing Suction‐Based Soft Robotic Gripper82 citations · 2021
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