The invention

A GPS in vivo to assist surgeons

Thanks to the flexible robot, the surgeons to operate with precision.

Surgery. To intervene at a distance in the narrowest parts and the most fragile of the human body, the surgeons make use of flexible robotic. In order to move with the maximum of delicacy, they are making progress in dilating. To locate very precisely the end of the hose in the body, several technologies exist. One proposed by a team of engineers from the university of California, San Diego, has the merit of costing less than 90 euros. This process is modeled on that of the GPS. The head of the flexible robot is equipped with a small magnet that creates a cham...

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Topic conducted by Frédéric Lewino

MCT/ZUMA/REA – – Daynes/LookatSciences

Date Of Update: 04 June 2020, 11:34