Pierre Dupont’s team at Boston University is in the process of developing a surgical robot which could be maneuvered in veins whilst also being harder than a catheter.
The new technology called a “concentric tube robot” would have the flexibility of a catheter and the stiffness of a needle.
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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/blog/show/a-flexible-surgical-robot-to-operate-on-the-heart