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SUMMARY:Virtual MEchanics GAthering -MEGA- Seminar: Harnessing fluid-struc
 ture interaction for soft robot navigation
DTSTART:20201105T161500
DTEND:20201105T173000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Lucio Pancaldi-Giubbini (MICROBS\, EPFL)\nAbstract: Minimally 
 invasive medical procedures\, such as endovascular catheterization\, have 
 drastically reduced procedure time and associated complications. However\,
  brain microvasculature\, still remain inaccessible due to the lack of app
 ropriate guidance technologies\, which does not allow deploying microscopi
 c structures. Namely\, the increased flexibility of miniaturized slender s
 tructures\, cannot withstand the push forces exerted by the surgeon and re
 sults in buckling. In this talk\, a new method for soft robot navigation t
 hat harnesses hydrokinetic energy for transportation and magnetic fields f
 or steering is presented. Exploiting elasto-hydrodynamic coupling allows b
 ypassing the current flexibility-rigidity trade-off bottleneck while enabl
 ing navigation of cell-sized robots with cross-sectional area that are ord
 ers of magnitude smaller than the smallest microcatheter currently availab
 le. I will show that tethered ultra-flexible endovascular microscopic robo
 ts can be navigated through tortuous vascular networks with minimal extern
 al intervention\, unprecedented speed and by promoting safe and autonomous
  robotic guidance of multileads.\n\nBio: Lucio Pancaldi obtained his BSc i
 n Life Sciences and MSc in Bioengineering at EPFL in 2013 and 2017\, respe
 ctively. He conducted his master thesis in Prof. Melody Swartz lab at the 
 University of Chicago\, where he investigated the development optical bios
 ensors using liquid crystals and diamond-based solid-state quantum technol
 ogies. He joined the MicroBioRobotic Systems Lab (MICROBS) in 2018 as a gr
 aduate student. His current PhD work focuses on endovascular microscale te
 chnologies and associated navigation methods for fundamental neuroscience 
 and translational medicine.\n 
LOCATION:Zoom: epfl.zoom.us/s/98393329833 Room Passcode: 349948 http://epf
 l.zoom.us/s/98393329833
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