A Steerable and Expandable Magnetic Aspiration Catheter for Enhanced Aspiration Thrombectomy
This article presents a novel magnetic aspiration catheter (MAC) that can be both actively steered and undergo distal‐end expansion via externally applied magnetic fields. The MAC facilitates precise branch selection and enhances clot engagement by improving endovascular navigation and aspiration efficiency. Phantom experiments validate its feasibility
Hakjoon Lee +7 more
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Investigating workload and usability of remote magnetic navigation for catheter ablation. [PDF]
Heemeyer F +7 more
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Microrobotic Catheterization of the Ophthalmic Artery for Targeted Treatment of Retinoblastoma
A microrobotic platform is presented that allows teleoperated and autonomous navigation of flow‐driven magnetic microcatheters, MagFlow, into the ophthalmic artery for superselective intra‐arterial infusion of chemotherapy to treat retinoblastoma. Extensive benchtop validations with patient‐derived biomimetic phantoms under optical and fluoroscopic ...
Artur Banach +5 more
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Enable active mobility of untethered miniature robots in high-resistance multiphase medium. [PDF]
Xiang Y +8 more
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This study introduces a data‐driven framework that combines deep reinforcement learning with classical path planning to achieve adaptive microrobot navigation. By training a surrogate neural network to emulate microrobot dynamics, the approach improves learning efficiency, reduces training time, and enables robust real‐time obstacle avoidance in ...
Amar Salehi +3 more
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Artificial intelligence-driven real-time assistance in minimally invasive surgery: a technology-oriented narrative review. [PDF]
Oh J.
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Modular Electronic Microrobots With Onboard Sensor‐Program‐Steered Locomotion
Modular electronic smartlet microrobots integrate ambient‐light energy harvesting, photodetection, programmable CMOS control, and bubble‐based actuation within a sub‐millimeter fold‐up architecture. A 58‐bit on‐board CMOS chiplet enables sensor–program steered switching between independently addressable actuators, achieving closed‐loop 2D navigation in
Vineeth K. Bandari +6 more
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Collaborative Visual Localization for Modular Self‐Reconfigurable Robots
Relative localization in modular self‐reconfigurable robots is challenged by hardware limitations, constrained fields of view, and sensor faults. This paper, based on the SnailBot platform, presents a vision‐based collaborative localization method that combines ArUco markers with learning‐based algorithms to enable robust pose estimation from ...
Guanqi Liang +4 more
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Articulated Untethered Magnetic Actuators for Multimodal and Cross-Scale Operations. [PDF]
Chen Z, Zhao X, Liu Y, Mi S.
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Navigation for Autonomous Mobile Robot Based on Environmental Magnetic Field
ANN RAHOK, SAM +2 more
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