The robot developed at the Technion was presented at a joint press conference for the Technion and the Italian Trade Commission on the occasion of the opening of the ILSI BIOMED 2011 exhibition. The Technion has 34 collaborations with 50 academic bodies and companies in Italy
The film "The Amazing Journey" from the XNUMXs, in which scientists entered a human body in a submarine, is becoming a reality, this time without miniaturized humans. Prof. Moshe Schaum from the Technion presented yesterday at a joint press conference for the Technion and the Italian Trade Commission the new generation of medical robots that will enter the body.
The tiny robot is being developed by the start-up company Microbot Medical based on the development of Prof. Moshe who is from the Technion Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and head of the Robotics Laboratory, in collaboration with Prof. Menashe Zaror, head of the Department of Neurosurgery at Rambam and Oded Salomon. Johnson & Johnson invested several hundreds of thousands of dollars in Microbot.
The diameter of the tiny robot is one millimeter and its length is about 10 millimeters, it is designed so that it can enter the blood vessels or the respiratory system, and perform actions inside the body such as cleaning the blood vessels, or transferring chemotherapy substances directly to the tumor.
According to Prof. Shoham, the first application will be in cleaning drainage tubes implanted in patients suffering from hydrocephalus, a drainage problem of the brain. The drain, which is implanted in the patients as early as infancy, remains in their brains throughout their lives. However, being inside the body, the brain tissues tend to penetrate into the tube and block it (SHUNT OCCLUSION).
The tiny robot implanted inside the drain will take care of cleaning the drain. The robot is activated from the outside using electromagnetic fields and therefore it does not need batteries and it will be able to serve the patient for the rest of his life, about 80 years.
The Technion and the professor who in particular have many collaborations with institutions in Italy in developments in the fields of biotechnology, among other things Shoham developed within the European Union consortium managed by the Polytechnic Institute of Milan a robotic system for brain surgery that uses the Spin Assist robot developed and marketed by the Mazor company.
According to Dr. Marina Scognamilio, head of the Italian Trade Commission, the Technion collaborates in 34 projects with 50 Italian organizations, mainly within the European Union's seventh R&D program.
"We are proud to present the project and offer an infrastructure that is an extensive basis for collaborations between companies and researchers from Italy in the field of biopharma, medicine and life sciences and the researchers and industrialists in Israel, this is because we see the utmost importance in raising resources designed to produce global innovation through collaborations between Israel and Italy."
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I'm waiting for them to invent a nano-jock that can detect the molecules of Gilad Shalit's smell.
No laughter or sarcasm. It's hard for me to think of anything else that would make it possible to locate it.
And regardless, it really looks like a small piece of metal that is moved inside the body by a magnet. What are robots here? Does this chopchick have any "brain" at all?
Anat - you are a genius.
I can already imagine how you sue some company, in 15 years, that used an invalid patent.
Without pressure sensors the robot may tear the tissue and cause irreversible damage.
Besides, it's not a robot, it's a piece of magnet made of iridium that can be moved inside the body by an external field.
It is also possible to receive from an external high-frequency device and use this electricity to burn diseased tissue in inaccessible places.
For this purpose, you can coat the magnet with an item or even connect a coil to it with a resistor and a capacitor and then it will heat up if radiation is irradiated on it at the resonant frequency of the circuit.
But it cannot be patented because it was first published here
Don't buy, I'll buy the shares...
The company can make more money from the treatments, software updates, support, etc.
Why do you think Agassi intends to make money from the trams? From the fact that he sells them or from the fact that you buy a battery charging subscription from him?
Imagine such a society where this robot is in one tenth of the world's population
It is clear that in 80 years more advanced things will be developed....and they will have to buy a new robot.
It is not enough to clean the nadis of the lungs - in smokers, larger spaces are created than the original spaces - because the partitions are destroyed and therefore the efficiency of the physiological action of the breath decreases all the time you smoke. Cleaning by itself or stopping smoking does not return the septa to the small original size of the nadia. In order to restore the nadia, the lung tissue must actually be restored - perhaps using stem cells - which will grow healthy lung tissue from the ground up.
Nano robots will be able to clean blood vessels whether a blood vessel is blocked in the leg or in a certain organ in the heart or in the male genital organ.
Elijah did not laugh. There is definitely a possibility that this will happen in a few decades.
And for number 7 - people who are not suckers, if it lasts 80 years then it will probably also rise accordingly...
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Whoever gave Professor Menashe Zaror his name was probably gifted with a prophetic sense.
A company that will sell a product that does not need to be replaced for 80 years, is a company I would not be
buys its shares. She will go bankrupt.
First of all, there should be a robot that will clean my living room efficiently and not like those boring robots that are out there today that do a bad job.
For 4 - isn't it easier to quit smoking?
Where can I see more details about the tiny robot?
And I ask - when will they work on a robot to clean the lungs of smokers and people living in an urban environment?
I think he was just laughing
We will still miss the days when there were no baseless comments and days without trolls, ghost-seekers, crystals and various entities... oh wait... were there such days?
Eliyahu - you watched too many C-type movies, not wrong...
We will still miss the time when we could leave the house just like that for the simple reason that even these tiny robots will one day have viruses, especially if they fall into the hands of some terrorist organization, we will be able to watch swarms of flying robotic insects and destroy everything that lives and eat it from the inside, and the question is not if when it will happen.