Hong Kong inventor helps develop tiny robot that will do brain surgery
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A pair of Hong Kong-Israeli researchers is developing a miniature robot that allows minimally invasive brain surgery.
Professor Moshe Shoham, of the Israel Institute of Technology, has been researching and incubating some of the world's cutting-edge medical robotic technologies for two decades.
Four of its projects have already matured from the laboratory and been launched by start-up companies, while several have proved profitable in Hong Kong, Taiwan, China and India.
The institute is now working on a miniaturised robotic brain surgeon, offering a minimally invasive procedure that would be a medical breakthrough.
Prototypes have been built, and Shoham said the project was about two years from maturity.
The robot would be inserted in the brain after surgeons have drilled a hole in the skull only 3mm wide.
