Posted on 09/26/2018 11:37:21 AM PDT by C19fan
A novel tiny, soft robot with caterpillar-like legs capable of carrying heavy loads and adaptable to adverse environment was developed from a research led by City University of Hong Kong (CityU). This mini delivery-robot could pave way for medical technology advancement such as drugs delivery in human body.
Around the world, there has been research about developing soft milli-robots. But the CityU's new design with multi-legs helps reduce friction significantly, so that the robot can move efficiently inside surfaces within the body lined with, or entirely immersed in, body fluids such as blood or mucus.
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Do they disintegrate after the delivery? Slip one of these in someone’s cup of cocoa and they may never know what happened.
Ol’ KGBPutey should love these things for putting out Hits.
No. No. No.
First thing I thought of too. “Oh, great. Another thing to weaponize.”
wonder if it can run on human voltage?
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