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Creating Robotic Technology for Ultra-Minimally Invasive Surgery

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  • Duration: 59 mins
  • Publication date: 18 Apr 2013

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In this presentation, the speaker addresses the challenges and opportunities of medical device development in an academic research environment. Recent cutting-edge innovations are explored as he describes his research in image-guided robotics, including the creation of new robot technology, concentric tube robots and robotic application to beating-heart intracardiac surgery. The speaker also describes a new research direction to create small tetherless robots that are powered, imaged and controlled by an MRI scanner.

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    Pierre Dupont

    Boston Children's Hospital, Cardiac Surgery and Cardiology Departments

    Dupont's lab was established 2.5 years ago at Boston Children's Hospital under a bold vision proposed by the Cardiac Surgery and Cardiology Departments. The goal was to create an engineering laboratory embedded inside a teaching hospital that would provide a unique opportunity to integrate the research and education of the engineering and medical communities. The laboratory is a mixing pot of engineering postdoctoral fellows and graduate students with medical research fellows and students who teach and learn from each other while synergistically creating technological solutions to healthcare problems.
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