(MENAFNEditorial) 20th January 2015
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Ivf (In Vitro Fertilization) Treatment To Partner Robotic Sperm Innovation
Engineers have managed to build a sperm-like robotic which is controlled by the use of magnets. The easy design has a metal-coated head and a flexible body about six times longer than a human sperm. By making use of a magnetic field no stronger than a fridge magnet the team had the ability to make the robot "swim" forwards and managed to guide it to a set point.
Dr Sarthak Misra a robotics engineer at the University of Twente in the Netherlands has publicly stated... "We have in fact developed a biologically motivated micro-robot that looks like a sperm cell however is totally made in the laboratory".
The new device is made from a strong versatile polymer with a metal layer repainted onto its head using a method called electron beam evaporation. That metal aspect is forced in various directions when the device is placed into a moving field produced by the coils of an electromagnet. Dr Misra told the BBC... "The magnetic head can orient it's load to any specific direction and just by flapping its tail it begins to move." When it comes to size the robotic can barely handle its biological inspiration for speed: it wiggles along at approximately 0.5 body lengths per 2nd whereas a human sperm can cover a number of times its body length in the same time period.
Substantially however Dr Misra and his co-workers have also disclosed that they can now steer the robotic sperm with rather more precision by adjusting the electromagnetic field modifications with a computer. Dr Misra has disclosed that robotic sperm innovation not just paves the way for nano-manufacturing or med functions but also paves the way for even more accurate "in vitro fertiliszation."
Spain are said to be among the first nations to reveal any real interest in developing robotic sperm technology for accuracy Ivf (In Vitro Fertilization) treatment and a spokesperson from leading Spanish infertility clinic "IVF-Spain" states that in order to preserve their high IVF success rates this kind of revolutionary innovation must continue to be explored and finished off by saying "With advances like this we might soon be acheiving a 100 % success rate from IVF treatment to couples frantically wanting to have a baby."
Original Press Release: Ivf (In Vitro Fertilization) Treatment Set To Evolve With Robotic Sperm Technology
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