“In the past couple of decades, there has been this huge explosion of robotic tools that enable minimally invasive surgery ... shown next to a model brain, is known as the twisted string ...

A U of T Engineering team has collaborated with researchers in the Wilfred and Joyce Posluns Centre for Image Guided Innovation and Therapeutic Intervention at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids ...

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 ...

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 ...

Robotic surgical tools (around 8 millimetres in diameter) have been used for decades in keyhole surgery for other parts of the body. The challenge has been making a tool small enough (3mm in diameter) ...

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

The NeuroOne OneRF Ablation System is a new device with FDA-cleared technology designed for both diagnosing and treating neurological disorders in one procedure.