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    MIT’s thread-like robot can slip through blood vessels in your brain

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    Christine Fisher
    Christine Fisher
    08.29.2019

    MIT engineers created a thread-like robot that can glide through the brain's blood vessels and could deliver clot-reducing drugs to treat strokes or aneurysms. The robotic thread could offer an alternative to open brain surgery, and it could be controlled by surgeons outside of the operating room. Theoretically, surgeons could control it remotely from an entirely different location.