Dr James Chandler, Research Fellow in Medical Robotics and Professor Pietro Valdastri, Chair in Robotics and Autonomous Systems in the School of Electronic and Engineering demonstrated the prototype bellowscope and Magnetic Flexible Endoscope to Chris Skidmore; Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation as part of a tour of Leeds Universities innovation hub.
The Pioneering robotics work at Leeds is carried out by the Science and Technologies of Robotics in Medicine (STORM) Lab, where researchers work across several fields of surgical robotics to enable earlier diagnosis, wider screening and more effective treatment for life-threatening diseases such as cancer.