The robot-assisted bronchoscope also uses a specialised CT scanner to find tumours buried in the lungs, enabling doctors to take a biopsy and confirm whether they are cancerous. Using the traditional technique, doctors were able to reach and take a biopsy for 23% of the tumours. Using the robot-assisted technology, doctors were able to reach and biopsy more than 84% of the tumours. In cases where a biopsy was not successfully taken with the traditional technique, patients were then tested with the robot-assisted technology and, of these, almost 93% were successful. “This research shows that robot-assisted technology can help diagnose many more of these tiny tumours in hard-to-reach parts of the lungs.