Eye Surgery By Magnetically Guided Microbots Moves Toward Clinical Trials

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @11:11AM 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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Re:The possibilities... by NFN_NLN · 2013-06-26 14:38 · 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....