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The surgeons of the future

1-MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

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Two engineers are working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop a miniature surgical robot. This robot would help surgeons to carry out minimally invasive operations. Its decoupled actuators allow the robotic arm to have nine degrees of freedom, while the camera has three degrees of freedom. This makes a much wider range of options available for the robot surgeon. The robot is currently being tested prior to assessment by the FDA, the organization that protects public health.

Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology https://bit.ly/3K6qVEx

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3- ENGINEERING FOR LIFE Building a heart

A team of bioengineers want to use advanced 3D printing techniques to transform a mixture of living cells into hearts and other organs. To do this, they are making thicker singlelayer tissues by carefully putting the right kind of cells that are needed in the right places. This type of method is proving to be very successful for replicating living organs.

Source: Stanford University https://stanford.io/3k6uUGs

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2- MATERIALS ENGINEERING

A power-free frequency tuner

The use of nanomaterials for developing new technologies is becoming more and more frequent. This is the case of the engineers at the University of Oxford and Pennsylvania who have discovered how to make ultra-rapid, energy-free adjustments to frequency through functional nanostrings. The main goal is for the two ends of a communication link, the transmitter and receiver, to tune into the same frequency channel so that they can start sending messages faster.

Source: University of Oxford https://bit.ly/3EID4OC

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1. ENGINYERIA MECÀNICA

Un nou robot quirúrgic permetrà ajudar els cirurgians en intervencions poc invasives. Aquest nou robot ha estat creat per dos joves, futurs enginyers, inscrits a l’Institut Tecnològic de Massachusetts. Actualment, està en període de proves, pendent de l’avaluació de l’organisme de protecció de salut pública, anomenat FDA.

2. ENGINYERIA DE MATERIALS

Uns nanocables creats per uns enginyers de la Universitat d’Oxford i de Pennsilvània tenen com a objectiu ajustar la freqüència entre l’emissor i el receptor sense l’ús d’energia per establir la comunicació de manera més ràpida. El material utilitzat per aquests nanocables és el vidre de calcogenur (tel·lurur de germani).

3. ENGINYERIA DE LA VIDA

Un equip de bioenginyers de la Universitat de Stanford han treballat per transformar un conjunt de cèl·lules en òrgans vius, per exemple, el cor. Mitjançant una tècnica de construcció molt acurada i gràcies a la tecnologia d’impressió 3D, l’equip de bioenginyers té l’esperança de poder aconseguir aquest objectiu.

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