Thursday, April 25, 2019

A first in medical robotics: Autonomous navigation inside the body

Bioengineers report the first demonstration of a robot able to navigate autonomously inside the body. In an animal model of cardiac valve repair, the team programmed a robotic catheter to find its way along the walls of a beating, blood-filled heart to a leaky valve -- without a surgeon's guidance.

from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily http://bit.ly/2UHcZXz

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