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Prof. Moshe Shoham the technology for surgery for lung, bladder and prostate cancers
Develops Groundbreaking as well. Prof. Shoham is one of the pioneers of medical robotics:
Neurosurgery Technology He previously established Mazor Robotics (a manufacturer of
robotic navigation systems for spinal column surgery, which was
INVENTING Prof. Moshe Shoham of the Faculty of Mechanical purchased by international medical equipment manufacturer
Engineering has developed a robot for brain surgery that serves Medtronic in 2018), Diagnostic Robotics and ForSight Robotics.
as the basis of the Tamar Robotics company. This is the world’s
smallest and most precise robotic system for minimally invasive
neurosurgery. Though its size is just 10 mm (a third smaller than
the smallest system that currently exists), it contains all the tools
a neurosurgeon needs: a camera, two arms for holding surgical
instruments, and a scaffold upon which the instruments can be
affixed and switched out. The system’s arms allow the surgeon to
make do with a single cut in the skull and a narrow corridor leading
to the target area, which reduces risk and recovery time for the
patient. The company will start experimenting on cadavers this year
and later begin studies on humans; they aspire for the system to be
approved by the FDA for use in hospitals by 2026. Tamar Robotics
aims to eventually shrink the robot to a diameter of 6 mm and use

Israeli Astronaut Eytan Stibbe Visits What
the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Happens
When
SOARING In February we Mechanical
hosted astronaut Eytan Engineers
Stibbe, who captivated us Meet a
and the students as he shared Spinning
experiences from his trip to Top?
space. Eytan was part of AX-1,
the first privately funded mission SPINNING Students
to the International Space of the manufacturing
Station. Eytan’s mission was the processes course,
Israel Space Agency’s Rakia Mission, which contained 34 experiments – taught by Prof.
including one that tested technology developed by Prof. Moran Bercovici Eyal Zussman and
and his team for creating optical components in microgravity conditions. PhD student Sofia
Kuperman, recently
held a spinning top
competition. The
scoring was based on
the rotation speed,
length and weight of
the top (lighter tops
were awarded more
points). The results?
Head-spinning!
Congratulations
to winners Lior
Zeidenberg and Itamar
Zehavi .

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