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Tiny Magnetic Hammer Drives Through Brain Tissue

29-Jan-2018

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Millirobots responds to magnetic field generated by MRI scanners.

Bullet-shaped robot produces enough force to drive it into animal brains.

Contains a stainless-steel bead that is pulled back and forth.

Bead compresses a mechanical spring in one direction.

MRI machines' magnetic field orientation is fixed, limiting directional control.

Could performing minor medical interventions, e.g. piercing a cyst and biopsies.

The study was published in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters journal.

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Aaron Becker

Assistant Professor of Robotics at University of Houston.

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

Scientific journal providing information on innovative research ideas and application results.

University of Houston

Public research university.

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