Robo technology in lungs
What is the name of the tool
This device is called a magnetic tentacle robot. This tool is 2 millimeters in diameter which is twice the size of a ballpoint pen tip.The device was developed by scientists at a smart lab affiliated with the Leeds Center for Cancer Research in the UK.
British scientists have developed a bully robot that can easily enter narrow airways in different directions.It helps to take, carries medications. It is excellent in diagnosing and treating lung cancer and other diseases related to that organ
Researchers say it helps.
Experiment
This approach has been successfully tested on a three-dimensional model of the respiratory system. In the next step .. this tool into the lungs collected from the carcass sent experimentally and its efficiency examined.
Problems with old knowledge
Doctors are currently using a device called a bronchoscope to examine the lungs and airways. This tool with a diameter of about 4 millimeters injected into the airway through the nose or mouth. However, in terms of size, it can only travel to the upper part of the respiratory system. Further down doctors use a 2 millimeter diameter catheter to insert it. It is passed through a bronchoscope into the small tubes of the lungs introducing. However, it is difficult for doctors to move the bronchoscope continuously and send the device and catheter to the desired location. In this order X-rays have to be used.
Necessary robot
The magnetic tentacle robot overcomes the difficulties encountered with the bronchoscope. It can be easily sent anywhere. To develop this tool two major challenges had to be overcome.1. It is small and can be bent if it is raised. This is through the twists and turns of the respiratory system made easy to move.2. Adding it to a specific area, instead of having to manually guide it to an autonomous guidance system developed by researchers.
The device was made by scientists who cut pipes that were 80 millimeters long and 2 millimeters in diameter. Soft elastometric material for this purpose used. The result is that it bends when easily lifted. In it are placed small magnetic particles.
Direction with magnet
The route the robot travels through the respiratory system is determined based on a previous scan of the patient’s lungs. Make it a robot programmed into the system. Correspondingly, the magnets move outside the body and affect the magnetic particles in the magnetic tentacle robot.This device changes its shape and direction as needed in this sequence and moves easily through the windings into the trachea. This approach patients do not need to have an X-ray performed while performing. It will be handled exclusively by individuals.robo technology very useful in lungs.