Medical micro-robots automatically change shape to swim through the body

It's looking more and more likely that tiny robots could one day be swimming and crawling through your body, delivering drugs or scrubbing out your arteries. But the human body is full of wildly different environments, so any robots exploring them need to be able to adapt on the fly. Now, researchers at EPFL and ETH Zurich have developed micro-robots that can automatically morph in response to their surroundings.

.. Continue Reading Medical micro-robots automatically change shape to swim through the body

Category: Robotics

Tags:

• Drug delivery
• EPFL
• ETH Zurich
• Medication
• Microbots
• Robot
• Robotic
• Robotics
• Robots

from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2RXpvFe