{"id":138182,"date":"2022-04-15T23:23:23","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T04:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/the-morning-after-mit-engineers-stroke-surgery-robot"},"modified":"2022-04-15T23:23:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T04:23:23","slug":"the-morning-after-mit-engineers-stroke-surgery-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/the-morning-after-mit-engineers-stroke-surgery-robot","title":{"rendered":"The Morning After: MIT engineers\u2019 stroke-surgery robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-morning-after-mit-engineers-stroke-surgery-robot.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t worry, yes, there are even more Musk machinations, but first let\u2019s broach something a little different \u2014 and possibly lifesaving. A team of MIT engineers is developing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/mit-engineers-robot-emergency-stroke-surgeries-121643239.html\">telerobotic system for neurosurgeons<\/a>. It unveiled a robotic arm that doctors can control remotely using a modified joystick to treat stroke patients.<\/p>\n<p>The arm has a magnet attached to its wrist, and surgeons can adjust its orientation to guide a magnetic wire through the patient\u2019s arteries and vessels to remove blood clots in the brain. Like in-person procedures, surgeons will have to rely on live imaging to get to the blood clot, but the machine means they don\u2019t have to be physically <em>with<\/em> the patient.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a critical time window after someone suffers a stroke to ensure the best chance of recovery. The robot could make treatment possible even if a neurosurgeon is miles away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t worry, yes, there are even more Musk machinations, but first let\u2019s broach something a little different \u2014 and possibly lifesaving. A team of MIT engineers is developing a telerobotic system for neurosurgeons. It unveiled a robotic arm that doctors can control remotely using a modified joystick to treat stroke patients. The arm has a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}