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Heartlander Robotic Heart Caterpillar

Heartlander is a robotic caterpillar that crawls across the surface of the heart to assist surgeons in heart procedures.

Heartlander

The HeartLander has been designed by scientists at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The robot has been used to successfully fit pacemakers leads in pigs and insert dye into the heart.

Source: BBC News

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