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Audio Article: Robotic thread is designed to slip through the brain's blood vessels
MIT engineers have developed a magnetically steerable, thread-like robot that can actively glide through narrow, winding pathways, such as the labrynthine vasculature of the brain to treat blockages and lesions, such as those that occur in aneurysms and stroke.
Read the story: http://news.mit.edu/2019/robot-brain-blood-vessels-0828
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MIT engineers have developed a magnetically steerable, thread-like robot that can actively glide through narrow, winding pathways, such as the labrynthine vasculature of the brain to treat blockages and lesions, such as those that occur in aneurysms and stroke.
Read the story: http://news.mit.edu/2019/robot-brain-blood-vessels-0828
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