Technology is constantly making leaps forward and is often on the side of health and medicine! So, in order to make life easier for doctors and even more so for patients, scientists-engineers in the USA have created the world's tiniest remote-controlled robot! Smaller even than the width of a coin and which could become a pioneer in medicine.
We are talking about a... robotic "crab", with eight legs and pincers, half a millimetre wide, which can be used in the future to eliminate tumours or "clean" clogged arteries in the human body.
Designed at Northwestern University, in Illinois, the robotic marvel of technology - which is smaller than a flea - is not made of complex material, but its power lies in its elasticity: It can bend, twist, crawl, walk and even jump, and it was built by the same team that built a winged microchip last year.
"Robotics is an exciting field of research, and developing microscale robots is a fun topic for academic exploration," said Professor John A. Rogers, a bioelectronics pioneer who led the experimental work.
"You can imagine microbots as agents to repair or assemble small structures or machinery in industry or as surgical assistants to clear clogged arteries, stop internal bleeding or eliminate cancerous tumors. All in minimally invasive procedures."
As always, of course, some people were suspicious and conspiracy theories quickly began. Thus, one Twitter user wrote: "It would be great to spy on people in their homes to collect data so companies can market their products even better," while another said: "Just imagine these little things creeping into your ears at night and subconsciously advertising products in your dreams so you buy the product when you wake up!"
Source: gazzetta,gr
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