Controlling Tiny Multi-Scale Robots for Nerve Repair

Overview

This paper describes distributed multi-scale control for axon repair. The simulation outcomes are not sensitive to plausible parameter variation and hence likely give order-of-magnitude clinically-relevant guidelines for repair time and accuracy. Further tuning of the control protocol requires better characterizations of biophysical axon properties, which nanorobots as research tools could help determine. An important extension is evaluating robustness against failures to help access the safety of nanorobot use in medicine.