2021
MAMMOBOT: A Miniature Steerable Soft Growing Robot for Early Breast Cancer Detection
Pierre Berthet-Rayne, S. M. Hadi Sadati, Georgios Petrou, Neel Patel, Stamatia Giannarou, Daniel Richard Leff +1
RA-L 2021
This letter presents MAMMOBOT, one of the first millimetre-scale steerable soft growing robots for medical applications. MAMMOBOT aims to access the breast through the nipple and navigate the mammary ducts to detect precursors of invasive breast cancers. Addressing limitations of the state-of-the-ar