Micro-/Nano-Robots for Endovascular Treatment

Overview

Traditional surgical tools have limited dexterity and are not small enough to reach many of the human body's tiny, torturous, and distal locations. Our invention uses magnetic micro-/nanorobots to provide access to these challenging locations in the blood vessel for endovascular treatments, targeting such as aneurysm and ischemic stroke.

Commercialisation opportunities

Technology Licensing Agreement, Investment, Joint Venture

Problem addressed

Current endovascular tools struggle to access complex, narrow, and distal vessels, limiting treatment precision and safety for deep-seated lesions and increasing procedural difficulty and risk.

Innovation

Enables precise navigation and localization inside blood vessels through non-contact magnetic actuation.
Reaches narrow, tortuous, and distal vascular regions that are difficult for conventional catheters and tools to access.
Offers a minimally invasive and highly flexible treatment approach for vascular diseases such as aneurysm and ischemic stroke.

Key impact

Improves access to deep vascular lesions and expands the scope of minimally invasive intervention.
Provides high flexibility and controllability, potentially lowering the technical barrier of complex interventions.
Has strong translational and commercialization potential for next-generation medical devices.

Award

IIFME Grand Prize, FIRI Award and Gold Medal with the Congratulations of the Jury

Application

Tools for accessing tiny, tortuous, and distal blood vessels to perform various treatments.

Patent

US and Chinese patents

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

Founded in 1963, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a forward-looking comprehensive research university with a global vision and a mission to combine tradition with modernity, and to bring together China and the West. CUHK teachers and students hail from all around the world. Four Nobel laureates are associated with the university, and it is the only tertiary institution in Hong Kong with recipients of the Nobel Prize, Turing Award, Fields Medal and Veblen Prize sitting as faculty in residence. CUHK graduates are connected worldwide through an extensive alumni network. CUHK undertakes a wide range of research programmes in many subject areas, and strives to provide scope for all academic staff to undertake consultancy and collaborative projects with industry.

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