Micro motor video
Description: Monash University logo
Title: Karen Sutherland
Karen Sutherland: "Every ten minutes an Australian dies of cardiovascular disease and it is the leading cause of death in Australia.
"But the complex surgical operations needed to treat stroke victims and those with hardened arteries are about to be made much safer."
Description: Computer-generated image showing human head with a section of the brain highlighted in red.
Caption: Cerebral complication
Description: Computer-generated image showing current operation procedure on human arteries.
Caption: Catheter insertion into femoral artery
Karen Sutherland: "A research team at Monash University's Faculty of Engineering has developed micro motors a quarter of a millimetre wide that will reach into areas that in the past have been difficult to operate on.
Description: Scientist using microscope.
Title: James Friend Co-Director MicroNanoPhysics Laboratory.
Professor James Friend: "What it is, is a small swimming robot that's designed to swim within the smallest of blood vessels within the human body.
"It's comprised of a small motor that we've developed, it has a small tail that's whipped along by the motor. It allows the whole thing to swim around in the body"
Description: Computer-generated image showing robot swimming in human arteries.
Description: Computer-generated image of robot showing power supply, piezoelectric element, stator, rotor, and flagellum and camera.
Description: Computer-generated image showing robot inside a human artery mounted at the tip of a catheter. The robot is launched from catheter.
Karen Sutherland: "The idea came about after a cry for help from the medical world."
Professor James Friend: "We were approached by several surgeons who actually performed neuro-surgeries on a daily basis and they have a success rate of around 80 per cent. 20 per cent of surgeries they perform actually result in death or serious injury to the patient and what they have to do is navigate into remote locations within the human brain and try to treat a stroke or embolism and for some of these patients they either can't reach the places or the patient can't tolerate the surgery or they actually go straight through the side of a blood vessel for some of the more unfortunate people."
Description: Computer-generated image showing catheter forced through vascular system. It breaks the artery wall and causes blood to flow out of the artery.
Title: Up to 40 per cent of fixed-end catheter surgeries fail.
Karen Sutherland: "And working in the field of motor miniaturisation has some frustrating consequences."
Professor James Friend: "The table where we assemble the parts we have close to 100 missing parts inside the table because they've fallen or bounced and once they've bounced they're gone."
Karen Sutherland: "Researchers at Monash University are making significant breakthroughs that bring real and positive benefits to people all over the world and developments such as the microbot are living proof of that."
Description: Monash University logo
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