Prof. Greg Fischer, Mechanical Engineering, and his team have developed a robotic surgery tool that can perform minimally invasive procedures inside of an MRI. They created this robot using plastic parts and ceramic piezoelectric motors that boasts a low-noise control system that doesn’t cause electrical interference. The robotic tool is now being tested on human patients undergoing prostate biopsies at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital where the radiologists believe it will provide unprecedented accuracy. Read more about this amazing new research at IEEE Sprectrum.
