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About
Tieshan Zhang is pioneering the frontier of soft robotics and biomedical microdevices, with a focus on creating millimeter-scale continuum robots that can navigate the human body with unprecedented precision. His major contributions include the development of hybrid-actuated soft robots capable of large-angle steering and high-precision manipulation—a breakthrough that overcomes the longstanding bottleneck between small size, compliance, and actuation performance. His work on biodegradable gelatin robots with insect-like claws (57 citations) and nanofiber-based millirobots with controllable drug release (50 citations) demonstrates a commitment to functional, degradable designs for clinical translation. Zhang’s most cited paper (97 citations) introduces millimeter-scale soft continuum robots that achieve both large-angle and high-precision manipulation, opening new possibilities for minimally invasive surgery. He has also engineered spiral-rolling millirobots for upstream swimming in blood vessels (23 citations) and sub-millimeter fiberscopic robots integrating maneuvering, imaging, and treatment (22 citations). His 2025 works on distributed force decoding and electronic antenna sensors for tactile perception show his expanding impact in human-machine interaction. With over 350 cumulative citations, Zhang is a rising leader in small-scale robotics, consistently pushing the boundaries of what soft, biodegradable, and multifunctional robots can achieve in biomedical settings.
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- 7Transparent Magnetic Soft Millirobot Actuated by Micro‐Node Array22 citations · 2021
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