Healthcare and technology, through mutual cooperation, contribute to the development of many products that help in the treatment of diseases. What can we expect from them in the future?
Researchers at the university City University of Hong Kong have developed a thin robot that resembles a caterpillar. In the future, this should be injected into a person's vein and thus provide him with vitally important medicines.
The sculpture, which includes hundreds of tiny feet, measures in length 17 mm, in width 7 mm, but only in height 1 mm. The robot can move in different directions with the help of magnets on each leg. Scientists point out that smooth movement makes relationship possible 1 : 1, which represents the length of the pins and the distance between them.
The robot can travel in seconds 3 mm distances. At the same time, it can overcome various obstacles and at the same time endure 100 times more weight than your own. The track is otherwise designed in such a way that it can work in extreme environments consisting of blood and slime.
In this way, medicine takes advantage of advances in technology. Everything points to the fact that in the future our health will be taken care of by robots that will carry various medicines around the body. Nevertheless, for now it is still hard to believe that a technologically advanced caterpillar will one day save us from death...
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