Multifunctional Biomedical Robot for Interventional Diagnosis and Treatment

Researchers from the School of Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have successfully developed what they believe is the world’s smallest multifunctional biomedical robots. Capable of imaging, high-precision motion, and multifunctional operations like sampling, drug delivery, and laser ablation, the robot offers competitive imaging performance and a tenfold improvement in obstacle detection, paving the way for robotic applications in narrow and challenging channels of the human body, such as the lung’s end bronchi and the oviducts.