Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pusan National University

MultiPhysics Robotics Laboratory다중물리 로보틱스 연구실

Wireless robots for minimally invasive medicine.

We combine magnetics, soft materials, mechanics and machine learning to build a new class of wireless medical robots — through novel designs, non-invasive actuation methods, and learning & control algorithms that minimize the invasiveness of diagnostic and surgical procedures.

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Hybrid magnetic actuation for pH-responsive drug delivery (Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2026)Paper ↗

Research

Magnetic Actuation & Localization

Steering untethered robots deep inside the body with permanent-magnet arrays, electromagnetic coils and hybrid magnet arrays — and closing the loop with magnetic localization and calibration.

Wireless Medical Robots

Minimally invasive robots for diagnosis, therapy and implantation — soft capsule endoscopes that take biopsies, magnetic catheters, microrobotic glaucoma surgery, self-deploying neural implants and drug-delivery soft robots.

Soft Robotics & Grippers

Grippers and soft bodies whose stiffness and adhesion can be tuned on demand — from layer-jamming grippers that hold on underwater to self-sealing suction grippers and adaptive grippers for industry.

Learning-based Design Optimization

Machine learning and FEM-in-the-loop Bayesian optimization to discover designs that intuition would miss — adhesive microstructures, electromagnet layouts and magnet arrays — always validated by experiment.

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Sep 7, 2026Paper

Our paper "A Hybrid Magnetic Actuation System for Single-Input Multistates Stabilization: Application to pH-Responsive Drug Delivery" has been published in Advanced Intelligent Systems.Link ↗

Aug 2026People

Congratulations to our graduate student on graduating and joining DRB!

Apr 3, 2026Paper

Our joint work with Prof. ChangKyu Yoon's group (Sookmyung Women's University), "Ecoflex-hydrogel bilayer soft robot for pH-controlled drug protection and delivery", has been published in Materials Today Bio.Link ↗

Feb 4, 2026Conference

The lab attended the Korea Robotics Society Annual Conference (KRoC 2026).

Jan 2026Grant

We started a new project, "Magnetic microrobotic surgery system for precision treatment of congenital glaucoma" (2026–2030), funded by the Lee Kun-hee Pediatric Cancer & Rare Disease Program.

Jan 2026Grant

We started a new NAVER-funded project on real-time intraocular pressure monitoring and adaptive glaucoma therapy via micro-robotic tube implantation in the anterior chamber (2026–2028).