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Yunus Alapan
February 9, 2024

Focus on new faculty: Yunus Alapan creates microrobots to benefit human health

During a medical appointment, a doctor deploys a tiny robot in a patient’s body, where it homes in on the patient’s diseased cells and tissues and delivers drugs directly to…

PhD student Youyi Zhou and Assistant Professor Yunus Alapan
November 12, 2025

Magnetic soft robots could deliver cargo inside your body

The magnetic soft robots in Yunus Alapan’s lab on the third floor of the Mechanical Engineering Building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus don’t look like complex miniature droids or anything you’d find in a…

December 21, 2023

Highlights from 2023, a year of innovation and impact

For the UW-Madison College of Engineering, 2023 was a year full of extraordinary achievements and tremendous growth. We advanced scientific knowledge on many fronts, improved the quality of people’s lives…