Recent News Articles / Media communications
Sperm Cell Biohybrid Microrobots
Sept. 2025
Altmetric show the recent publication on sperm cell biohybrid microrobots has received attention from over 30 news outlets. Click the links for the news articles.
- Live Science – Scientists invented ‘sperm bots’ that they piloted through a fake cervix and uterus
- Nesweek – Scientists Invent ‘Bionic Sperm’ To Help With Infertility
- Pourquoi Docteur – Fertilité : la piste de spermatozoïdes robotisés pilotés vers les ovules
Big Ideas at μScale Podcast
June 10, 2025
Dr. Veronika Magdanz and Noah Franco were featured on three episodes, which can be found on Spotify Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, and Youtube here.
Connecting Droplet Adhesion with Sperm Kinematics: A New Paradigm in Sperm Quality Monitoring
May 28, 2025
The Scientific American‘s article and commentary on Dr. Veronika Magdanz’s newest paper, “Connecting Droplet Adhesion with Sperm Kinematics: A New Paradigm in Sperm Quality Monitoring”, with coauthors Sudip Shyam, Sushanta Mitra, and Sirshendu Misra
- Press release from AOL on the paper
- The Today Headline’s article on the paper
- Phys.org newest article
- Waterloo Press Release featuring Veronika
- Sushanta Mitra’s commentary on the publication, from the Scientific American
The Vox Intellectus Podcast
Nov. 29, 2024
Dr. Veronika Magdanz: Microrobots for Medical Applications
A look INSYDE
Dec. 11, 2023
The Medical Microrobotics lab at University of Waterloo
News on IRONSperm
July 2020
Our Science Advances Article highlighted in Nature middle east and Chemistry world!
TU Dresden News on recent publication
Nov. 28, 2019
Press release about our recent PlosOne article.
TU Dresden News
Feb. 13, 2018
Press release of the TU Dresden about my past investigations at the IIN and future planned investigations for the Open Topic project:
https://tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/newsportal/news/mikroroboter-aus-sperma
Further articles in response to that:
https://www.mdr.de/wissen/mikroroboter-sperma-100.html
https://medizin-aspekte.de/99094-mikroroboter-aus-sperma/
As Audio:
Medical Microrobotics Lab 