Physical Intelligence News
18 August 2023

Soft Robotic Tool provides new 'eyes' in endovascular surgery

The magnetic device can help visualise and navigate complex and narrow spaces

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Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, USA
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Bioinspired Autonomous Miniature Robots
Max Planck Research Group Leader

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart have developed a soft robotic tool that promises to one day transform minimally invasive endovascular surgery. The two-part magnetic tool can help to visualise in real time the fine morphological details of partial vascular blockages such as stenoses, even in the narrowest and most curved vessels. It can also find its way through severe blockages such as chronic total occlusions. This tool could one day take the perception of endovascular medical devices a step further.