Bulgarian Scientists Invent Revolutionary Robot for In Vitro Fertilization, Cancer Research

Health | November 6, 2010, Saturday // 16:01|  views

The unique nanorobot Hydromina is expected to be recognized as a revolutionary invention for artificial insemination and medical research. Photo by BNT

A team of 34 Bulgarian scientists have invented a "faultless" nanorobot that is expected to revolutionize in vitro fertilization and other medical procedures.

The nanorobot is called "Hydromina" created by the scientists from the Institute of Mechanics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is designed to practically eliminate the human factor and human mistakes in the in vitro fertilization procedure.

It provides for fully automated and precise insertion of sperm into the egg without risking to pop its membrane.

The mega-thin pipette of the unique nanorobot will allow scientists and doctors to inject cells with size 1/30000th of a milimeter.

The invention will allow doctors to carry out 10 000 artificial insemination procedures per day, whereas only up to 80 such attempts per day are possible at present, according to a report of the Bulgarian National TV about the invention.

The robot could also be used for other medical and medical research such as the injection of cancer cells for cancer research.

It took the BAS scientists 4 years to invent the Hydromina robot under a project funded by the EU and Germany with a total of EUR 473 000 to date. The Bulgarian state has not sponsored the project.

The unique invention has been designed, created, and tested in a lab located in the basement of the BAS Institute of Mechanics.

"We, the scientists at the BAS, are not doing anything other than just competing with the scientists around the world, and our invention is a competitive product of which all of Bulgaria can be proud. No other robot of this kind has ever been created, it is not accidental that this project has been funded by the EU," says Kostadin Kostadinov, a 2nd degree senior research fellow at the Institute of Mechanics.

"The benefit of this invention is that a varying amount of a certain substance can be injected into each cell. This is technique is of great interest for people dealing with cancer research," explained Asen Shulev, an assistant professor at the BAS Institute of Mechanics.

Nanorobot Hydromina will be enter into mass production but the process for that is expected to take some time. The production price of one of these nanorobots is projected to be EUR 30 000.

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Tags: BAS, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Mechanics, nanorobot, nanotechnology, robots, robotized surgery, in vitro, artificial insemination, cancer research, Hydromina, Kostadin Kostadinov, Asen Shulev

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