Robotic guides needle into lungs extra precisely than human docs

A robotic guided a versatile needle into the lungs of pigs, outperforming people utilizing straight needles

By Jeremy Hsu

A medical robotic can information a versatile needle via the lungs of residing pigs with out direct human management. Over a number of further exams on lungs faraway from the pigs, the robotic positioned the needle extra exactly than human docs utilizing a normal straight-needle process.

“There are many procedures, including biopsy or directed drug delivery or localised radiation cancer treatment, that involve using a needle to get to a specific target to perform the procedure where you’re manoeuvring that needle inside tissue,” says Ron Alterovitz on the College …