Remote controlled pill-bot

[Kharn]

The NanoRobotics Lab at Carnegie Mellon University has come up with a medical robot that can be swallowed, and is then able to be controlled from outside the body. The device has small arms with adhesives that can attach to slippery internal surfaces, which has previously proven difficult. Once inside the body, it can be used to view damaged areas, deliver drugs, as well as biopsy questionable tissues, and possibly even be used to cauterize bleeding wounds with a small laser. The device could be stopped, and even reversed to get a better look at areas that may have gone unnoticed otherwise. This would be a major advancement in diagnosing intestinal problems, and could lead to potentially life saving treatments. Did we mention that it has lasers?

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How cool is that! a tiny little medical robot, that can biopsy tissue an possibly deliver drugs to parts of the body that directly need them. We move one step closer to nano technology.

 

[Luke]

^interesting.

Well we already have nano technology, but not nano bots, nano bots would be wicked...

 

[Oreo]

Imagine it... that would be funny. You cut your arm and suddenly it's healed up by microscopic lil bots

 

[Jorsoft]

That's pretty cool but where's the fun in it? It needs to be like that book/movie where they shrink down a bunch of people and pilot a space ship through the person's body. That's much more interesting.

 

[Luke]

^haha, it seems a lot of cartoons and movies have things about that.