Researchers develop ‘magnetic vine robots’ to transform cancer treatment

PharmaTimes August 8, 2024
Jen Brogan

Lung cancer accounts for an estimated two million global diagnoses and 1.8 million deaths

Researchers from the University of Leeds have developed a new class of ‘magnetic vine robots’, which have the potential to transform cancer diagnosis and treatment for patients.

Engineers, scientists and clinicians from the university’s STORM Lab and Future Manufacturing Processes Research Group, in collaboration with the University of California San Diego’s Morimoto Lab, developed the technology published in IEEE Robotics and Automaton Letters.

Utilising pneumatic pressure on the inside to grow and magnetics to steer, the vine robots with magnetic skin have the ability to grow as they move and squeeze through gaps almost 40% thinner than their resting diameter, allowing them to navigate narrow, complex...

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