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Yuanhe Chen is pioneering the next generation of miniature magnetic soft robots for minimally invasive medicine and biomedical applications. His research focuses on the design, hierarchical control, and multifunctional deployment of magnetically actuated robots, with key contributions in variable-stiffness catheters, spreadable soft robots, and bio-inspired locomotion. Chen’s most cited work introduces a homocentric variable-stiffness magnetic catheter for multiarm robotic ultrasound-assisted coronary intervention (38 citations), enabling safer navigation in complex vasculature. He also developed spreadable magnetic soft robots with on-demand hardening (36 citations), allowing adaptive deployment in confined spaces. His innovations extend to a multifunctional magnetic miniature truck robot for cargo loading and unloading in the GI tract, and bio-inspired magnetic soft robots with omnidirectional climbing for targeted therapy. Chen’s designs integrate rotating magnetic field actuation systems for precise 3D vascular delivery, and he has created a cilia-like soft gripper inspired by natural entanglement for rapid adaptive grasping. With over 90 cumulative citations and a growing portfolio of high-impact publications from 2022 to 2025, Chen is establishing himself as a leading voice in soft robotics and interventional medical devices, pushing the boundaries of what miniature robots can achieve in clinical and industrial settings.