The titanium heart, invented by Daniel Timms, uses magnetic levitation technology with a single rotating disc to pump blood.

The titanium device’s underlying principles were first envisioned in 2001 by a biomedical engineer named Daniel Timms. Timms, a plumber’s son, started by mimicking a human circulatory system using ...

BiVACOR’s artificial heart implant is the world’s first implantable rotary blood pump. It uses magnetic levitation technology as a complete replacement for a human heart. It is designed as a ...

In Australia, an artificial heart made of titanium kept a man alive for 100 days while a donor heart was eventually found, marking the longest period that someone has survived on the innovation.