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Ah, I found one. "MIT Engineers develop magnetic soft-continuum thread-like robot with lubricating hydrogel skin" or in no-BS language: "Some college guys mov
by PostOnce 4y ago
Ah, I found one.
"MIT Engineers develop magnetic soft-continuum thread-like robot with lubricating hydrogel skin"
or in no-BS language: "Some college guys move coated wire with magnets"
https://news.mit.edu/2019/robot-brain-blood-vessels-0828 https://news.mit.edu/2019/robot-brain-blood-vessels-0828
- nl 4y agoThey created a device which they can successfully and safely move through blood vessels in the brain without causing injury and you characterize it as "Some college guys move coated wire with magnets"?! I mean yes. Sort of like saying a covid vaccine is "some people mixing chemicals in test tubes".
- PostOnce 4y agoNot quite. The researchers also tested the thread in a life-size silicone replica of the brain’s major blood vessels, including clots and aneurysms, modeled after the CT scans of an actual patient’s brain. So no, not a brain. Silicone tubes. On a table somewhere. They're happy to talk it up like its an actual in-vitro human brain though.
- nl 4y agoSure - you need ethics approval to do the studies on a live brain, but you don't on a replica. The point remains.