MIT's Tiny Robots For Painless Surgeries

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 Breakthrough Medical Robotic System Being Developed




                              Source:  MIT & Origami Robots


Potential Drug Treatment Delivery System, Non-Invasive Surgery and More

Researchers at MIT's world famous CSAIL (Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) are developing revolutionary, new, tiny robots, shaped like centuries old, Japanese art called origami, with tremendous medical potential.  Here are the key facts:

  • MIT scientists and roboticists are using origami folding patterns to create tiny robots to perform "no incision, no pain and no infection risk surgeries"
  • Robot can fold to the size of a pill
  • It is ingestible
  • It can be moved around in the digestive system by using magnetic fields
  • It has been successfully tested and removed a tiny battery button in an artificial stomach and digestive tract - young kids in the thousands ingest these potentially deadly battery buttons every year
  • MIT has been developing and moving this technology forward for several years
  • MIT experts involved in the project believe that origami is at the forefront of a scientific and technological revolution in biomedicine
  • Potential uses of the tiny robotic technology include as a patch for wounds, delivering medicine internally and for painless, no incision surgeries.

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