Figure 1.

(A) Scheme of medical perspectives in micro/nanorobotics for in vivo human applications, including machines capable of performing biopsy (Gultepe et al., 2012), healing wounds (He et al., 2016), enhanced retention in tissues (Gao et al., 2015), and deliver their cargoes to specific destinations (Felfoul et al., 2016). Analysis of the published articles (see Table 1), including micro/nanorobots for in vivo applications, showing (B) the cumulative number of published articles, and (C) the impact factor of those publications.