{"id":245368,"date":"2026-10-14T05:07:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T10:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/two-tiny-magnetic-robots-could-replace-open-heart-surgery-study-says"},"modified":"2026-10-14T05:07:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T10:07:02","slug":"two-tiny-magnetic-robots-could-replace-open-heart-surgery-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/two-tiny-magnetic-robots-could-replace-open-heart-surgery-study-says","title":{"rendered":"Two Tiny Magnetic Robots Could Replace Open-Heart Surgery, Study Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/two-tiny-magnetic-robots-could-replace-open-heart-surgery-study-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The milirobot system uses two cooperating robots, which are the size of a pencil tip, to deliver antibiotics directly to the heart. Researchers have successfully tested the robots in simulated blood flow and real pig heart tissue, demonstrating they can accurately dock, deliver medication over three hours and be safely retrieved.<\/p>\n<p>Read more.<\/p>\n<p>Robots the size of a pencil tip could soon deliver antibiotics directly into infected heart tissue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The milirobot system uses two cooperating robots, which are the size of a pencil tip, to deliver antibiotics directly to the heart. Researchers have successfully tested the robots in simulated blood flow and real pig heart tissue, demonstrating they can accurately dock, deliver medication over three hours and be safely retrieved. Read more. Robots the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245368","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\/245368","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}