Navigating the future of assisted reproductive technology with micro-robotics, nanobiosensors and artificial intelligence

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Authors and Affiliations

1. CIC nanoGUNE, San Sebastián, Spain

   Friedrich Striggow, Pallavi Jha & Mariana Medina-Sánchez

2. Chair of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

   Pallavi Jha

3. Institute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

   Ripla Arora

4. Department of Obstetrics Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

   Ripla Arora

5. IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain

   Mariana Medina-Sánchez

6. Chair of Micro- and Nano Biosystems, Center for Molecular Bioengineering (B CUBE), Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

   Mariana Medina-Sánchez

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Mariana Medina-Sánchez.

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The authors declare no competing interests.