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Magnetic catheter steering system coming from Swiss start-up

By Frank Tobe | March 6, 2013

A new start-up being spun off from the IRIS labs at the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland offers promise of robotically-controlled catheters to support cardiac procedures.

Aeon Scientific‘s new technology is also a platform for other medical applications including targeted drug delivery.

In photo, the magnetics are shown on the left and enable moving the micron-sized rectangular medicine delivery system in the retina of an eye on the right, and steer it to the exact right spot.

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Frank Tobe

Frank Tobe is the founder of The Robot Report and co-founder of ROBO Global which has developed a tracking index for the robotics industry, the ROBO Global™ Robotics & Automation Index. The index of ~90 companies in 13 sub-sectors tracks and captures the entire economic value of this global opportunity in robotics, automation and enabling technologies.