# HIT's Wu Zhiguang team develops adaptive magnetically controlled nanorobot swarm platform, achieving navigation in the spinal canal of mice and non-human primates

- Source: Harbin Institute of Technology Robotics
- Published: 2026-08-13T16:00:00.000Z
- RoboHot: https://robohot.news/en/items/jxv7a8y1c2j1c0z167rmfho5o
- Original: https://robot.hit.edu.cn/2026/0814/c287a399622/page.htm

## Summary

Professor Wu Zhiguang's team at Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), together with collaborators, developed an adaptive magnetically controlled nanorobot platform that can form swarm motion patterns such as vortex, chain, and ribbon under external magnetic field drive, and achieved targeted navigation within the spinal canal in mice and non-human primates. The results were published in Science Advances.

## Why it matters

The research team released experimental results on navigation of magnetically controlled nanorobot swarms in non-human primates. Readers interested in the medical translation of micro- and nanorobots can learn about its technical approach.