Biorobotic Heart Developed to Simulate Real Heart Conditions

The innovative model, combining biological tissue and robotic technology, offers a new tool for studying heart valve conditions and training clinicians.

• Researchers have created a biorobotic heart that combines a biological heart and a silicone robotic pump, which can mimic the structure, function, and motion of a healthy or diseased heart.
• The biorobotic heart can serve as a research tool for studying heart valve conditions and interventions, as well as a surgical training platform for clinicians, medical students, and trainees.
• The biorobotic heart can bridge the gap between current heart simulators and animal studies, offering a less expensive method with a longer shelf life.
• The team focused on mitral regurgitation, a disorder affecting about 24.2 million people worldwide, and successfully corrected the disorder in the biorobotic heart using three different techniques.
• The team is now working to optimize the current biorobotic heart system by shortening the production time and lengthening the shelf life even more, and exploring the use of 3D printing technology to recreate a synthetic human heart.

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