Eric Diller Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering University of Toronto CANADA

Flexible magnetic robots for the gut and brain

Millimeter-scale magnetic robots can navigate inside the body as functional devices for diagnosis, treatment and surgery. This talk will introduce how we design and produce these tiny articulated robots with flexible joints, transmissions and strength, as well as how we create magnetic fields that can move them as functional robots inside the body. Moving microrobots for grasping, cutting, sampling and surgery powered by these magnetic fields will be shown, along with our progress towards medical applications for diagnosis in the gut, and in neurosurgery.