Robotically controlled microprey to resolve initial attack modes preceding phagocytosis

Simone Schuerle; Ima Avalos Vizcarra; Jens Moeller; Mahmut Selman Sakar; Berna Özkale; André Machado Lindo; Fajer Mushtaq; Ingmar Schoen; Salvador Pané; Viola Vogel; Bradley J. Nelson

doi:10.1126/scirobotics.aah6094

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Robotically controlled microprey to resolve initial attack modes preceding phagocytosis

Simone Schuerle¹,²,*,
Ima Avalos Vizcarra³,*,
Jens Moeller³,
Mahmut Selman Sakar⁴,
Berna Özkale⁵,
André Machado Lindo⁵,⁶,
Fajer Mushtaq⁵,
Ingmar Schoen³,
Salvador Pané⁵,
Viola Vogel³,† and
Bradley J. Nelson⁵,†

¹Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
²Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
³Laboratory of Applied Mechanobiology, Department of Health Sciences and Technology Zürich (ETH Zurich), CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
⁴Institute of Mechanical Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Station 9, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
⁵Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, ETH Zurich, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
⁶Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar da Universidade do Porto, 4099-003 Porto, Portugal.

↵†Corresponding author. Email: viola.vogel{at}hest.ethz.ch (V.V.); bnelson{at}ethz.ch (B.J.N.)

↵* These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Science Robotics 04 Jan 2017:
Vol. 2, Issue 2, eaah6094
DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.aah6094

Simone Schuerle

1Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

2Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

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Ima Avalos Vizcarra

3Laboratory of Applied Mechanobiology, Department of Health Sciences and Technology Zürich (ETH Zurich), CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland.

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Jens Moeller

3Laboratory of Applied Mechanobiology, Department of Health Sciences and Technology Zürich (ETH Zurich), CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland.

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Mahmut Selman Sakar

4Institute of Mechanical Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Station 9, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Berna Özkale