There’s a Microscopic Robot On This Penny That's Built to Go Inside You…
Engineers are building tiny magnetic robots that could deliver medicine to an exact spot in your body. Here's how they work. One Shot Could Provide All the Vaccines You'll Ever Need - https://yo...
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In Black Mirror robotic dogs open doors, but in real life MICROSCOPIC robots could explore your digestive system -- and I don’t know which creeps me out more. Let’s introduce, microscale magnetic tumbling robots, OR microTUMs. These 4 to 800 micron long tiny bots are designed to deliver a specific drug to a specific place in your body. Imagine taking a pill filled with these instead of just filled with powdered chemicals. See, when you take a normal pill the medication just sort of dissipates all over the place hopefully hitting the prescribed target, but some things are harder to find. Like, a 1 centimeter peptic ulcer in a 10 meter gastrointestinal tract. It becomes a needle in the haystack. And these robots are designed to navigate your gastroin...
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In Black Mirror robotic dogs open doors, but in real life MICROSCOPIC robots could explore your digestive system -- and I don’t know which creeps me out more. Let’s introduce, microscale magnetic tumbling robots, OR microTUMs. These 4 to 800 micron long tiny bots are designed to deliver a specific drug to a specific place in your body. Imagine taking a pill filled with these instead of just filled with powdered chemicals. See, when you take a normal pill the medication just sort of dissipates all over the place hopefully hitting the prescribed target, but some things are harder to find. Like, a 1 centimeter peptic ulcer in a 10 meter gastrointestinal tract. It becomes a needle in the haystack. And these robots are designed to navigate your gastroin...
