Robotic tools are too big for ‘keyhole’ brain surgery – but a new miniature technology using magnets could change all that.

Professor Eric Diller (MIE) and his collaborators have created a set of tools only a few millimetres in diameter, to grip, ...

A research team at the University of Toronto in Canada has developed a set of miniature magnet-powered tools that could ...

A new breakthrough in neurosurgery involves the development of tiny robotic tools, powered by magnetic fields, that can perform keyhole surgery on the brain. Offering the precision and dexterity of a ...

Robotic surgical tools (around 8 millimetres ... pull or cut tissue as desired. In open brain surgery, the surgeon relies on their own dexterous wrist to pivot the tools and tilt their tips ...

to create a set of tiny robotic tools that could enable ‘keyhole surgery’ in the brain. In a paper published in Science Robotics, the team demonstrated the ability of these tools — only abou ...

A team of researchers from the University of Toronto in Canada has created miniature magnet-powered tools for keyhole brain ...

Most brain surgery requires doctors to remove part of the skull to access hard-to-reach areas or tumors. It's invasive, risky, and it takes a long time for the patient to recover. We have ...