How We Make Soft Robotic Hearts

Heart In Your Hands invites you to hold a beautifully designed robotic heart beating in time with your own, or of your loved ones, to arouse a deeper appreciation and to inspire empathy toward this hidden engine of our lives.
Engineer Richard Sewell, artist Natasha Rosling and designer Helen White worked closely with biomedical engineer Dr David Nordsletten to design an intimate experience to stimulate a more fundamental understanding of cardiac mechanics and the engineers that are advancing our understanding of our hearts and heart health.
The team developed a bespoke method of building soft robotic technology to give the public the experience of what it would be like to hold their own heart beating in their hands.
In collaboration with Dr David Nordsletten and Biomedical Engineers at King’s College London, Funded by the Royal Academy of Engineering and the British Heart Foundation.
Dr David Nordsletten: goo.gl/M9VXDg
Kings Imaging and Biomedical Engineering Group: goo.gl/mnWJ18
Royal Academy of Engineering: www.raeng.org.uk /
British Heart Foundation: www.bhf.org.uk/
A Rusty Squid Film
Filmed by Adam DJ Laity and James Dalby
Edited by James Dalby
MUSIC:
Rotation
by Cloud Revolution
RUSTY SQUID TEAM:
Creative Director: David McGoran
Creative Producer: Natasha Rosling
Technical Director: Richard Sewell
Lead Designer: Helen White
Robotic Engineer and Designer: Rob Stephenson
Communications Engineer: Zak Wilcos
Lead Mechanical Engineer and Fabricator: James Gates
Lead Systems Engineer: Kyle Hirani
Fabrication and Technical Support: Nick Wilsher
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[@DanaTheLateBloomingFruitLoop]

That is beautiful.

[@jacksvlogs9924]

This is amazing! So well done!

[@waaedqwayder9994]

Amazing, but still don’t know how!!

[@jacquifurneaux]

I loved "Book-Hive" in Bristol Central Library.

[@souravproject9463]

Hi
I'm working on similar. I need some info. How to contact you?

[@lLOFIl]

Can you remake my body please I want to live longer

[@saseendranraman4012]

Similar way we can make robotic liver, kidney, intestine etc.This will revelutinise modern medicine.