Lee Peter Bee: A 2025 Proof of Concept – Hybrid Heart
Lee Peter Bee, Business Owner at Interim HealthCare of St Charles, shared a post on LinkedIn about a recent article by Maziar Arfaee ey al., published in Nature Communications, adding:
“The artificial heart is getting softer and smarter
A 2025 proof-of-concept Hybrid Heart combines soft robotic pumping, tissue-engineered lining, electronics-free control of heartbeat, and wireless energy transfer.
A pulsatile, more heart-like design could matter for long-term compatibility and function.
The use of soft materials is not cosmetic.
It is a strategy for safer interaction with blood and surrounding tissues.
One reason this paper stands out is that energy delivery is treated as part of the therapeutic architecture, not an afterthought.
The Hybrid Heart makes the case that anatomy and motion fidelity are central, not optional, for next-generation support systems.
Biocompatibility, thrombosis reduction, physiologic flow, and durable support all matter.
This design tries to address several at once.
This is exactly the kind of multidisciplinary blend that can produce step changes rather than incremental device tweaks.
The closer we get to organ-like mechanics and interfaces, the more plausible long-term support becomes.
Future implants will likely be judged not only by what they do, but by how elegantly they power and regulate themselves.
One of the most interesting aspects is how the design borrows from real septal contribution to cardiac output rather than ignoring anatomy.
The closer support systems come to natural flow and structure, the better their long-term promise may become.”
Title: A soft robotic total artificial hybrid heart
Authors: Maziar Arfaee, Annemijn Vis, Paul A. A. Bartels, Lucas C. van Laake, Lucrezia Lorenzon, Dina M. Ibrahim, Debora Zrinscak, Anthal I. P. M. Smits, Andreas Henseler, Matteo Cianchetti, Patricia Y. W. Dankers, Carlijn V. C. Bouten, Johannes T. B. Overvelde, Jolanda Kluin
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