Three-time UMR graduate James Friend has a big idea about a very small surgical device.
As reported today by Australian newspaper The Age, in Melbourne, Friend and his colleagues at Monash University are "developing micro-robots they hope will be able to swim through the human body and perform medical tasks." Friend hopes "to build a tiny machine no wider than two human hairs side by side to do the job."
Friend leads the Micro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory at Monash. He learned the art of designing minuscule motors at UMR, where he earned a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering from UMR in 1992, then stayed on to earn his master's and Ph.D., both in mechanical engineering, in 1994 and 1998.
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