Acoustic tweezers tagged posts

Future technology for contactless medical procedures. In the perhaps not so distant future, surgeons could perform a range of medical procedures all without touching the patient, thanks to advancements in ‘acoustic tweezers’.

Surgeons won’t be shrunk and sent into the body like in the 1960s Sci-Fi, Fantastic Voyage, but could program a specialised array of mini-speakers to create an intricate sound field that ‘traps’ and manipulates selected objects in ‘acoustic tweezers’ for manipulation within tissue.

Advancements in acoustic tweezers from Professor Bruce Drinkwater in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bristol, and his...