British scientists have invented colonoscopy robots

a study published in the academic journal Nature Machine Intelligence on October 12, local time, showed a new robotic system that can perform colonoscopies. The researchers believe the technique simplifies colonoscopy procedures and could also be used in medical examinations such as pancreatic endoscopes, bronchoscopes and gastroscopes.
colonoscopy is the gold standard for colorectal cancer diagnosis, and early diagnosis can greatly improve the survival rate of patients. In the United States and the European Union, there are more than 19 million colonoscopy operations each year.
, however, traditional endoscopes are expensive to examine and painful for patients, and are complex to operate, requiring skilled doctors to guide the probe through the colon with a good understanding of the probe's location.
other way to do this is to use an external magnet to guide the magnetic probe through the colon. These magnets are precisely controlled by the robotic arm and enable magnetic probes to perform complex movements in the patient's body. This approach can reduce the patient's pain and examination costs, but it also requires a doctor to be fully trained to operate. Wireless capsule endoscopes, which have emerged in recent years, can also relieve pain and discomfort, but do not provide therapeutic functions such as biopsies and biopsy. Colonoscopy robots are being tested in pigs
In the study in Nature-Machine Intelligence, Bruno Scaglioni of the University of Leeds in the UK and others combined robotics, computer vision and control techniques to create a semi-automated robotic system. In the system, endoscope probes can move intelligently and autonomously in complex environments such as the colon under the simple instructions of a doctor. In particular, the researchers developed a control method that can calculate the course of motion based on real-time visual analysis of the environment.
and others tested the new system on artificial colon models and two pigs and found it easier to use than traditional methods. The authors of colonoscopy systems with varying degrees of automation
believe that autonomous navigation techniques in the system are an important step towards automating colonoscopy and helping to reduce the mental and physical burden of colonoscopy. Next, they will try to speed up the robot's movement and further shorten the inspection time.
the study was entitled "Enabling the future of colonoscopy with intelligent and autonomous magnetic".