'INCHWORM' DEVICE MAY HELP HEARTS.(News) From: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) | Date: June 4, 2004 | COPYRIGHT 2004 The Cincinnati Post. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Byline: ron Spice Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

A robotic "inchworm" that can slip under a patient's breastbone and crawl around on the surface of the heart might one day be used to perform therapeutic procedures on a beating heart.

Using suction pads to adhere to the heart's surface, the two-footed device could crawl to any location on the heart, where it might be used to inject replacement cells, implant electrodes or emplace shunts to restore blood flow to clogged coronary arteries.

And, because the device is affixed to the heart, the need to compensate for the movement ...

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