Tissue-penetrating approach involves MRI-powered millirobots

Friday, June 26, 2015 - 04:30 in Health & Medicine

Last month at the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Seattle a team presented their work, "Toward Tissue Penetration by MRI-powered Millirobots Using a Self-Assembled Gauss Gun.". Their work suggests an approach for the MRI-based navigation and propulsion of millirobots for minimally invasive therapies. They discussed a technique for generating large impulsive forces to penetrate tissue. Aaron T. Becker, Ouajdi Felfoul and Pierre E. Dupont authored the study.

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