Our Expertise
We have a strong expertise in the magnetic manipulation and localization of medical capsules and soft robots, which we leverage to reach deep inside the human body to diagnose and treat life-threatening and inoperable diseases.
Soft robotics, intelligent control, frugal design, advanced proprioceptive sensing, innovative manufacturing and smart actuation are some of the scientific tools we use to create affordable lifesaving medical technologies.

Academic Staff
Post-Doctoral Research Fellows
Ph.D. Students

Nikita Murasovs
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering at University of Aberdeen

Muhammad Khalid
Master of Science (MSc) in Mechatronics Engineering at National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST)
Visiting Students

Anna Cappelletti
Bsc Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florence

Sara Sarti
Bsc Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florence
Staff
Alumni

Thomas Dean

Tianle Zeng
Our Grants enable us to work towards ...

Active Grants
Major Completed Grants

European Research Council
ERC Consolidator Grant: NoLiMiTs – Novel Lifesaving Magnetic Tentacles

National Institutes of Health
Magnetic Capsule Endoscope for Colonoscopy in Patients with IBD

EPSRC
Surgery Enabled by Ultrasonics Programme Grant

NIHR/LTHT
NIHR MedTech and in vitro diagnostic Co-operative Surgical Technologies

H2020 European Union
AUTOCAPSULE – Autonomous multimodal implantable endoscopic capsule for the gastrointestinal tract

Intuitive Surgical
Intuitive Surgical Da Vinci Research Kit

EPSRC
Terabotics Programme Grant - Robots with Terahertz imaging to spot and remove cancer tumours

EPSRC
New minimally invasive technologies for the treatment of pancreatic cancer

National Science Foundation
CAREER: Lifesaving Capsule Robots

H2020 European Union
H. Pylori-Scopy – Marie Curie Fellowship for Manish Chauhan

ESPRC
SonoPill Programme Grant

GCRF HEGCE
Ultra-low-cost diagnosis of Helicobacter Pylori in rural India

Italian Ministry of Health
Development and pre-clinical validation of a soft tethered endoscopic robot to replace colonoscopy as a screening tool for colorectal cancer

EPSRC
EPSRC GCRF: Ultra-low-cost endoscopy for gastric cancer screening in rural China

Cystic Fibrosis Trust
A technical innovation in bowel preparation

Garfield Weston Foundation
Accelerating Innovative Robotic Technologies to Fight Cancer

Cancer Research UK
A robotic magnetic flexible endoscope for painless colorectal cancer diagnostic screening, surveillance and intervention

Royal Society
Wolfson Research Merit Award

National Science Foundation
Integrated Modeling, Analysis and Synthesis of Miniature Medical Devices

NIHR/LTHT
NIHR Global Health Research Group on Global Surgical Technologies