spider bot

11.27.09

"Spider Pill" Camera Bots Could Crawl Your Colon

A tiny camera will be swallowed by patients and inspect their intestines
By Jeremy Hsu Posted 10.12.2009 at 10:53 am 3 Comments

People who dislike having medical cameras snake through their body on the ends of long tubing now have a fun alternative. A new remote-controlled spider bot can scuttle around inside the colon or intestine and perform a medical inspection instead.

Rest assured that the experience sounds much more pleasant than Neo's icky encounter with an electronic bug in The Matrix. Italian scientists have tested the device inside pigs, controlling the spider bot wirelessly to diagnose serious conditions such as cancer.

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