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ELIZA to cope up for the shortage in medical staff in Australia

Researchers at the Centre for Online Health at the University of Queensland, have developed a Robot named ‘ELIZA’ which is meant to fix serious medical problems in countryside hospitals, where there is a shortage of medical staff. The Robot has … Continue reading

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PneuStep MRI robot for organ biopsies

Engineers at the Johns Hopkins Urology Robotics Lab are reporting the invention of a new MRI robot dubbed PneuStep that is intended to work within strong magnetic fields of the MRI machine and perform the MRI-guided organ biopsies. The new … Continue reading

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HeartLander caterpillar robot: An end to open-heart surgery?

Scientists are now reporting a leech-like robotic caterpillar that can repair damaged hearts. It can crawl across the surface of the heart to offer the treatment. Developed by US scientists, a prototype of the HeartLander device has been successfully tested … Continue reading

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Miniature robot to swim in your veins

We earlier reported that Japanese researchers have developed a prototype model of the micro medical robot that can reside and travel inside a human body to eliminate disease especially cancer. However, now, Dr. Nir Schwalb and Oded Salomon of the … Continue reading

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