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Watch a tiny robot back flip through a real colon – Futurity: Research News
A microrobot as small as a few human hairs can do flips through the colon to deliver drugs. Check out the video to see it in action.
A rectangular robot as tiny as a few human hairs can travel throughout a colon to deliver drugs by doing back flips, researchers report.
Why the back flips? Because the goal is to use these robots to transport drugs in humans, whose colons and other organs have rough terrain. Side flips work, too.
The robot could get a drug directly to its target site, removing side effects, such as hair loss or stomach bleeding, that the drug may otherwise cause by interacting with other organs along the way….
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