Berna Özkale-Edelmann Munich Institute of Biomedical Engineering Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence Technical University of Munich GERMANY

Soft microrobotic systems to guide cell fate for applications in tissue engineering

The integration of small-scale robotics in biomedical sciences has led to unprecedent capabilities. Despite the advances in the field, ensuring user-defined communication between the devices and living matter, specifically mammalian cells, is still challenging. The ability to communicate with individual cells and regulate cellular processing with external stimulation during growth is particularly crucial for tissue engineering applications and stem-cell based regenerative therapies. In this talk, I will present novel nanorobotic tools and microrobotic cell culture technologies that address these existing challenges.