The installation took place at The Jacobs Institute, a nonprofit medical device innovation center in Buffalo, New York.
Zurich, Switzerland-based Nanoflex designed its robotic system with a compact magnetic field generator and a navigation control unit. These guide ultra-flexible devices through the body for a range of complex vascular interventions. The technology enables physicians to directly control, bend and guide the tip of the guidewire through the vasculature. Physicians using the system can conduct procedures both at the bedside and thousands of miles away.
Nanoflex first wants to target remote mechanical thrombectomies for acute ischemic stroke patients. Its system could reduce the need for inter…