Affiliations 

  • 1 School of Pharmacy, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
  • 2 Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy and Alternative Medicine, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan
  • 3 Key Laboratory of Modern Preparation of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ministry of Education, Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang, China
  • 4 Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Gomal University D.I.Khan, Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan
  • 5 Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UCSI University, Cheras, Malaysia
J Drug Target, 2021 Nov 09.
PMID: 34706620 DOI: 10.1080/1061186X.2021.1999962

Abstract

Progress in the drug delivery system in the last few decades has led to many advancements for efficient drug delivery. Both micro and nanorobots, are regarded as superior drug delivery systems to deliver drugs efficiently by altering other forms of energy into propulsion and movements. Furthermore, it can be advantageous as it is directed to targeted sites beneath physiological environments and conditions. They have been validated to possess the capability to encapsulate, transport, and supply therapeutic contents directly to the disease sites, thus enhancing the therapeutic efficiency and decreasing systemic side effects of the toxic drugs. This review discusses about the microand nanorobots for the diagnostics and management of diseases, types of micro, and nanorobots, role of robots in drug delivery, and its biomedical applications.

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