Yunus Alapan leads the Bio-integrated Robotics Lab at UW-Madison. His research group works at the interface of robotics, microtechnology and bioengineering, developing soft micro-robots inspired by nature for healthcare applications. The overarching theme of Alapan’s research is bionic cellular and tissue robots for size-matched and spatiotemporally resolved physical and biochemical manipulation of cells and tissues, with applications in in vitro disease modeling, therapeutic cell and tissue manufacturing and targeted drug delivery.