Associated Press: Robotic device winds its own way through beating pig heart

April 29, 2019
This undated photo provided by Margherita Mencattelli in April 2019 shows the tip of a robotic catheter equipped with a small camera and lighting encased in silicone, in Boston. Described in a report released on Wednesday, April 24, 2019, the device guided itself through the delicate chambers of a pig’s heart as it was beating. (Margherita Mencattelli/Boston Children’s Hospital via AP)

It is one of the first times researchers have shown that a truly autonomous surgical robot can navigate inside the heart, not controlled by a doctor with a joystick, according to a study in Wednesday’s journal Science Robotics. Read more from Associated Press Health.