Tiny Bloodbots To Crawl Around In Your Veins
Writing that title alone gave me heart trouble. It was hairy there for a minute, I almost Michael Jacksoned on you. Anyway, more robotic death. Remember: what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Unfortunately, these will kill you.
Researchers at the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa have developed a miniature crawling robot, called ViRob, that can crawl through your lungs, find a tumor, and zap it with drugs. The bot, which is one millimeter long and four millimeters from end to end, can snake its way through the body, slipping into blood vessels and navigating through the respiratory and digestive systems
But thanks to tiny arms that help it grip vessel walls , ViRob is the first microbot that can tunnel between different body cavities. It's controlled by an electromagnetic field outside of the robot that creates a vibration that propels ViRob forward.
Wow, that's....wrong. And I, for one, refuse to piss robots.
The Tiny Robot that Can Crawl Through Your Veins--And Treat Your Tumors [discovermagazine]
Thanks to msjessiemeghan, who, please wake me up and tell me it's just been a nightmare.
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