Biomedical Robots
Newcastle University works at the intersection of robotics, mechatronics and neuroscience.
Medical micro and nanorobotics
The field of micro and nanorobotics has recently emerged as a multidisciplinary research area. The promise is to revolutionize minimally invasive treatments.
Medical micro and nanorobots can enable minimally invasive treatments. This includes targeted drug/cargo delivery with high precision in hard to access areas of the body. To decrease the dose of administered drugs and the side effects, the tiny robots can locally deliver therapeutic cargo to the targeted pathogenic area. They have many other applications in healthcare, including:
- localised diagnostics
- microsurgery
- detoxification in areas of the body filled with biological fluids
Neurorobotics
The Neurorobotics group at Newcastle University works at the intersection of robotics, mechatronics and neuroscience. It uses robotic and mechatronic technologies to study how the human brain plans, controls and executes movements. It also acquires new motor skills, from the early stage of its development to its maturity.
The group also aims to exploit the knowledge acquired from a healthy brain for a human-centered design of robotic and mechatronic systems. This will better assess and intervene on movement-related brain pathologies, such as stroke and Parkinson’s disease. These research activities are interdisciplinary and benefit from the opportunity to work with:
- neuroscientists
- clinical neurophysiologists
- developmental psychologists
