Posted on 05/13/2016 6:43:48 AM PDT by BenLurkin
A pill that unfolds into a little robot could one day give parents everywhere a little more peace of mind. Once swallowed, it can open up inside a person's stomach, crawling across the stomach wall to retrieve a single-cell button battery, and even patch wounds.
This is no small thing. In the US every year, over 3,500 incidents of swallowed button batteries are reported in the US, and most cases of battery swallowing involve toddlers. Although most of these batteries are safely digested, sometimes they can leak and cause tissue burns, bleeding, and death.
Developed by an international team of researchers from MIT, the University of Sheffield in the UK and the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan, the origami robot is the latest developed by MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory director Daniela Rus, who has been building and researching origami robots for years.
An ingestible robot, however, poses some significant challenges
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OK. I’ll bite. How do you retrieve the robot?
I knew an old lady who swallowed a fly ...
At 3500 occurrences annually most of which are passed without incident in a country of 320,000,000. I'd say it is a small thing.
I’ve never tried to eat a battery. M&M’s on the other hand...
Why?
It’s no small thing if you can teach this thing to perform surgery. Fetching batteries is just what it does in kindergarten.
For the hard of understanding, the small thing is battery swallowing.
Especially if it can enter into your brain and rewire it to turn you into an atheist and leftist. I wonder how many government grants are being used to fund the research?
For the prickly hypersensitive, I wasn’t criticizing or disparaging the comment, just using the same figure of speech.
They’re working on it and plan on mastering the human brain in 10 years:
NOVA - Official Website | Implanting False Memories - PBS
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/implant-false-memory.html Proxy Highlight
Feb 11, 2016 ... ... mix falsehood with reality, and apply social pressure. The result is unmistakable—a false memory gains very real traction in someone’s mind.
Davos Elite Reveal Orwellian Plan to Decode Your Brain and Read ...
www.truthstreammedia.com/2016/02/21/13969/ Proxy Highlight
Feb 21, 2016 ... Davos Elite Reveal Orwellian Plan to Decode Your Brain and Read Your Mind ... Listening to them talk is tough, with the smarmy “us versus them” ... They also discuss the ability to implant false memories in our heads
RE: “Especially if it can enter into your brain and rewire it to turn you into an atheist and leftist. I wonder how many government grants are being used to fund the research?”
Those 3500 are mostly children. I would support this as an emergency.
MMMMMMMM yummy, nutritious batteries
Maybe it’ll stop my Surefire from swallowing so many batteries ?
I wonder how often. I'm going to search now.
15 deaths over about 10 years. Perhaps this device could prevent some. However, if adults don't know the child has swallowed the battery until he or she is very ill, it doesn't seem like the robot would help much.
I suspect they invented the stomachbot first and then went looking for a reason to use it.
Good point.
Just how many rare and oddball type events do you want to spend money on realizing that there are a lot more things other than kids swallowing batteries which is 99.999% preventable anyway that pose health risks to people?
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