Soft-Body IntraVascular Robot
A soft-bodied robotic device engineered for precise navigation and treatment within blood vessels. By utilizing earthworm-like movement, this robot is designed to access difficult-to-reach areas, performing tasks like blood clot removal, targeted medication delivery, and real-time vessel monitoring with minimal invasiveness.
Our Mission
The motivation behind our project is to create a medical device to enhance a surgeon’s capabilities and develop a new method for conducting a currently taxing and time-consuming surgery. The device in question is a small surgical robot designed to traverse an artery from the hip up to the head and clear life-threatening blood clots resulting from a stroke or similar medical emergency.
The scope of our team’s contribution is to be limited to fit with the required time constraints; our goal is to benefit future teams by refining the locomotion of the surgical device through the production of a roughly 10x scale prototype. This prototype should produce a strong skeleton such that future innovations can be implemented without compromising the base function of the robot: to quickly and reliably move within a human artery facsimile.