Highly complex medical robots created through 3D printing
The innovative medical robot for cancer treatments of the future comprises numerous components, joints, and parts with varied material characteristics – and yet it can be produced using a 3D printer in a single-step process.
16 Sep 2019 Barbara RuschShare
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In the future, the robot will assist doctors in taking biopsies and in tumor thermotherapy. “The positioning of a needle or probe in a minimally invasive procedure is absolutely crucial, because at best the doctor can be guided by computer tomography or MRT imaging and that means working with the patient lying in a narrow tube,” explains Marius Siegfarth of the Fraunhofer IPA. The robot is therefore small and light enough to be inserted in the scanner tube with the patient. It is controlled hydraulically from outside the tube, protecting the doctors from CT imaging radiation.
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