{"id":21556,"date":"2016-02-02T19:47:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T03:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/robot-drills-electrodes-into-british-teens-brain-cures-epilepsy"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:00:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:00:45","slug":"robot-drills-electrodes-into-british-teens-brain-cures-epilepsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/robot-drills-electrodes-into-british-teens-brain-cures-epilepsy","title":{"rendered":"Robot drills electrodes into British teen\u2019s brain, cures epilepsy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A British teenager has become the first child in the UK to be cured of epilepsy by a robot that drilled deep into his brain.<\/p>\n<p>Billy Whitaker, 15, had suffered daily seizures for seven years until the operation two weeks ago, which medical experts are convinced has cured him.<\/p>\n<p>The procedure used a \u00a3350,000 ($503,455) robot, practically the same as those used on car factory production lines, to drill electrodes into Whitaker\u2019s brain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/331046-robot-drills-electrodes-into-british\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British teenager has become the first child in the UK to be cured of epilepsy by a robot that drilled deep into his brain. Billy Whitaker, 15, had suffered daily seizures for seven years until the operation two weeks ago, which medical experts are convinced has cured him. The procedure used a \u00a3350,000 ($503,455) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21556","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=21556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63033,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21556\/revisions\/63033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}