Ignition Awards for Research That Might Reduce Knee Pain, Propel Underwater Robots, and More
The innovative projects earned funding and support on their way to making the leap from the lab to the real world.
Improving access to life-saving health care
Led by Associate Professor Sheila Russo (ME, MSE) and Associate Professor Tommaso Ranzani (ME, MSE), BU’s role is to develop a smarter catheter—a thin tube that combines multiple functions into one tool, a kind of Swiss Army knife for stroke treatment.
This Soft Robot Might Save Millions of Lives
A millimeter-scale, multifunctional soft robot that overcomes three hurdles that have been hampering minimally invasive heart surgeries.