Bradley Nelson: Microrobotics in Medicine | Andreas Orthey #3

Content

00:38 Beginnings of Microrobotics: Manipulation at Small-Scale

02:45 Grand Challenges in the Field: Small, Intelligent Machines

03:27 Medical Applications of Microrobots

04:08 Regulatory Challenges: Sterility

05:08 Personal Motivations: From the Space Program to Microrobotics

06:43 First Robotics Project: Assembly Workcells and Force Control

09:00 PhD in Robotics: Microscopic Robots

10:14 Curiosity and Forces at the Smallest Scales

12:06 First Interest in Medical Robotics

15:13 Two Leading Causes of Death: Heart Attacks and Ischemic Strokes

16:09 Move Micro Robots: Magnetic Field Control

18:11 From Blockage to Relief: CTs, Nanoparticles, and Microneedles

21:25 Detection of Strokes: Face, Arm, and Speech Test

23:06 Formation of Blockages

23:55 Prevention of Blood Clots: Smoking, Diet, and Exercise

25:28 Femtotools: Force Sensors at Small Scales

27:19 Aeon Scientific and Nanoflex Robotics

28:03 Magnetic Fields: Dangers and Weak Fields

29:36 Effects of High-Frequency Magnetic Fields

30:18 From Research to Product: Challenges and Lessons learned

32:49 Building Exceptional Teams: Passion, Teamwork, and Uncertainty

34:11 Ideal Research Student: Excitement, Collaboration, Hard Work

35:39 Structure of Daily Work Days

37:18 What is the Smallest Scale for Robots?

39:40 The Limit: One Micrometer

40:21 Alternatives to Magnetic Fields for Actuation

41:11 Applications outside the Medical Field

43:08 How realistic is the movie Transcendence?

45:00 Current State on Transporting Drugs through the Body

47:09 Micro-robots in the Brain: What can we already do?

48:18 What Bradley is most proud of

48:45 What do you need to break into Micro-Robotics?

50:31 How to create a good interdisciplinary team?

51:59 How do LLMs affect the field of Micro-Robotics?

54:00 Current Research: Robotics Capsules and Teleoperations

56:34 Time in United States Peace Corps: Botswana and Teaching Math

58:56 Moving from Minnesota to Switzerland

01:00:52 Why Robotics is Amazing

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