Sending a robot into the MRI tube

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Surgery assisted by magnetic resonance imaging has one drawback ? surgical steel does not react well to electromagnets.

Now engineers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have an answer. A completely nonmagnetic robot driven by air and light can conduct biopsies with more precision than a surgeon?s hand.

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