Conor James Walsh

medical device inventor, MIT

Conor Walsh, winner of a competition to be the IDEAS from the Next Generation speaker at the conference, is a Ph.D candidate in mechanical engineering at MIT. His winning idea is a high-tech medical device called Robopsy, a robotic surgical aid for doctors performing biopsies that could make the procedure safer and more accurate. It has already received $80,000 in prize and development money and a provisional patent. Walsh's goal to develop practical engineering technologies that directly help humanity is realized in the lightweight, disposable plastic structure that holds and manipulates a biopsy needle.