Advanced Micro-robotics for biomedical applications. Examples for (A) cell characterization (Zhang et al., 2020d), (B) pathogen sensing (Stanton et al., 2017), (C) pathogen collection (Soto et al., 2020), (D) biopsy (Yim et al., 2014), (E) drug delivery (Song et al., 2022), (F) cell delivery (Li et al., 2018), (G) tissue penetration (Wu et al., 2018), (H) microsurgery (Kagan et al., 2012). Panel (A) reproduced from (Zhang et al., 2020d) under the terms of the CC-BY license. Copyright 2020, The Authors, published by Wiley. Panel (B) reproduced from (Stanton et al., 2017) with permission. Copyright 2017, American Chemical Society. Panel (C) reproduced from (Soto et al., 2020) with permission. Copyright 2020, Wiley. Panel (D) reproduced from (Yim et al., 2014) with permission. Copyright 2014, IEEE. Panel (E) reproduced from (Song et al., 2022) under the terms of the CC-BY license. Copyright 2022, The Authors, published by Wiley. Panel (F) reproduced from (Li et al., 2018) with permission. Copyright 2018, published by The American Association for the Advancement of Science. Panel (G) reproduced from (Wu et al., 2018) under the terms of the CC-BY license. Copyright 2018, The Authors, published by The American Association for the Advancement of Science. Panel (H) reproduced from (Kagan et al., 2012) with permission. Copyright 2012, Wiley.