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July 20, 2016

Stomach troubles? Just swallow this robot

  • Researchers use remote-control joysticks to help move the robot into the right location to patch wounds, deliver medicine or dislodge a foreign object.
    • By MATT O’BRIEN
    Associated Press

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Has your child swallowed a small battery? In the future, a tiny robot made from pig gut could capture it and expel it.

    Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology are designing an ingestible robot that could patch wounds, deliver medicine or dislodge a foreign object. They call their experiment an “origami robot” because the accordion-shaped gadget gets folded up and frozen into an ice capsule.


     
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