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For strongly interacting permanent-magnet robots, a dedicated decoupling field reorients their magnetic moments to transition the inter-robot interaction from attraction to repulsion, enabling subsequent deterministic separation, whereas weakly interacting low-remanence robots can be separated using conventional FFR-based selective locomotion without dedicated decoupling. The framework is validated across different fluid viscosities and robots with distinct magnetic properties and is further integrated with robot redistribution and FFR-selective magnetic heating to achieve spatially regulated thermal responses. Finally, proof-of-concept demonstrations show clot-removal and targeted-delivery emulation and selective robot navigation in a 3-dimensional cerebrovascular phantom. 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