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Eye Surgery By Magnetically Guided Microbots Moves Toward Clinical Trials

Posted by samzenpus on from the here's-a-robot-for-your-eye dept.

Sabine Hauert writes "According to robotics researcher Simone Schürle from ETH Zurich's Multi-Scale Robotics Lab (MSRL), the OctoMag is a magnetic manipulation system that uses electromagnetic coils to wirelessly guide micro-robots for ophthalmic surgery. With this system, mobility experiments were conducted in which a micro-robot with a diameter of 285 um (about four times the width of a hair) was navigated reliably through the eye of a rabbit, demonstrating the feasibility of using this technology in surgical applications."

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  1. ICP asks: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Fucking magnetically guided microbots, how do they work?

  2. Re:Rabbit eye by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did anyone else think of Innerspace (1987)?

    Reading a summary referring to eye surgery, Zurich and a researcher named Schürle, the first thing that flashed into my gulliver after me thoughts drifted into hearing the blissful heaven of Beethoven's Ninth was that I'd like to have her right down there on the floor with the old in-out, real savage.

  3. Re:The possibilities... by NFN_NLN · · Score: 3, Funny

    Someday these will be completely automated. Insert in eye, it does a thorough inspection, figures out what's wrong, and fixes it.

    Please, don't limit your imagination like that. Inserting something in your eye is so barbaric.

    Now imagine... someday these will be completely automated. Insert magnetically controlled robot in your ass....