Remote Stroke Intervention Robotics

Telerobotic guidewires, vascular path planning, and learning data from a University of Minnesota–Medtronic collaboration.

From remote control to navigation support

I co-authored three papers from the University of Minnesota’s collaboration with Medtronic on tools for remote stroke treatment. They address different pieces of the same problem: a small telerobotic system for guidewire control, a way to turn patient-specific vascular geometry into a route-planning graph, and a 2D dataset for studying learning-based navigation. The Minnesota Robotics Institute overview describes the broader collaboration.

These are research and feasibility results. They do not demonstrate autonomous treatment or a clinically deployed system.

Telerobotic guidewire prototype

Compact two-degree-of-freedom guidewire actuator prototype with a coin for scale
Photograph of the compact bedside guidewire actuator from Figure 2 of the DMD 2026 paper. This is a benchtop prototype, not a clinical device.
Benchtop guidewire navigation setup with a backlit planar vascular phantom
Figure 4 benchtop setup, advancing a guidewire through a planar vascular model. Local joystick control is shown; this is not an in-patient procedure.
Histograms of control-message round-trip time over local Wi-Fi, cellular hotspot, and residential Wi-Fi
Figure 7 round-trip control-message latency across three network settings. These measurements do not establish complete procedural latency or clinical readiness.

2026 Design of Medical Devices papers

My role was as a co-author on these team papers. The author lists and full methods are available at the linked ASME records.