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Soft Robotic Catheter for Beating Heart Surgery

A shape-shifting robotic catheter could make heart surgery safer
“Based on an octopus-inspired device previously created by Ranzani, it incorporates a [MORE]

Robot Operating Deep Inside the Lung

Miniature Robots Could Treat Tumors Deep within the Lung
“Researchers from the University of Leeds in the UK have developed miniature, [MORE]

“Yomi,” the Dental Surgery Robot

Robot performs dental implant surgery with less pain, faster healing times for patients
“Capable of assisting with the preoperative and interoperative [MORE]

An Implantable Ventilator

MIT  engineers design an implantable soft robotic ventilator
“Here we [engineers at MIT] show, in a porcine model of varied respiratory [MORE]

Robotic Pill Delivers Insulin

Robotic Pill Effective for Oral Delivery of Medications Like Insulin
“Penned “RoboCap,” the capsule is designed to deliver protein-based and other [MORE]

Millirobots for Drug Delivery

Stanford engineers develop tiny robots to bring health care closer to precisely targeted drug delivery
From Stanford University: “This new “spinning-enabled [MORE]

Magnetic Catheters/Autonomous Endoscopy

Patient-Specific Magnetic Catheters for Atraumatic Autonomous Endoscopy
“We [electrical engineers at the University of Leeds] design and manufacture a fully shape-forming, [MORE]

A Smart “Stud-Finder” for Accessing Blood Vessels

Robotic thread is designed to slip through the brain’s blood vessels
“Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Massachusetts General [MORE]

An Autonomous UVC-light Disinfecting Robot

ADIBOT-A
“To create the mobile ADIBOT-A, UBTECH (Shenzhen, China) incorporated lidar sensors at the top and base of the robot. These [MORE]

Patented Robot Extracts Scorpion Venom

Robot that extracts-scorpion venom receives patent
“According to the patent [from researchers at Ben M’sik Hassan II University in Casablanca, Morocco], [MORE]

“Little Moe” Against Ebola

Little Moe Robot
When this piece appeared, Thomas Eric Duncan was still alive in Texas Presbyterian Hospital. Ironically, TPH was one [MORE]

Steerable Needles for Treating Brain Clots

Steerable Tubes for Blood Clot Removal
Neurosurgeons at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN have developed a cannula with multiple tubes [MORE]

Panasonic Medical Robot

Japanese electronics giant announced in July that it was entering the medical robotics field with a robot that stores drugs [MORE]

Army Robotic Medics

Over the past three years, US Army doctors have used a two-way audio-video robot to carry out some 200 medical [MORE]