By Ben Coxworth n this X-ray image, one of the millirobots (bright spot at center right) can be seen making its way through a blood vessel connecting two kidneys and an aortaUniversity of Twente While some blood clots can be removed via a flexible tool that’s inserted into the affected vein or artery, others are much...
by University of Twente Credit: University of Twente For the first time ever, wireless millirobots navigated a narrow blood vessel both along and against arterial flow. Researchers from the University of Twente and Radboudumc inserted the screw-shaped robots in a detached aorta with kidneys where they controlled them using a robotically controlled rotating magnet. The researchers...
