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Researchers Found a Way to Send Tiny Robots Into Mouse Brains
gizmodo ^ | 03/24/2021 | Isaac Schultz

Posted on 03/24/2021 6:37:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin

The team’s research was published today in the journal Science Robotics. It comes on the heels of previous research by members of the same team, which saw liquid-coated nanorobots remotely propelled through the jelly-like fluid of the eye.

[R]esearchers use a rotating magnetic field to pull them around remotely. On microscales—we’re talking incremental movements about 1% the width of a hair—the researchers were able to make the hybrid bio-bots wend paths like in the video game Snake. They’re dubbed “neutrobots” because they infiltrate the brain in the casing of neutrophils, a type of white blood cell.

It ultimately took Wu’s team eight years to actualize the microscopic robot swarms capable of bridging the gap between the rodent bloodstream in the animal’s tail, where the bots were injected, and its brain, where gliomas—tumors that emerge from the brain’s glial cells—resided. Part of the issue is that the mice’s white blood cells didn’t dig the flavor of the magnetic robots. To overcome that issue, Wu’s team coated the bots in bits of E. coli membrane, which the white blood cells easily recognize as a unwelcome invader. That made the robots much more palatable, and the white blood cells enveloped them. From inside those cells, the robots were then able to roll the cells toward the brain; a Trojan horse for the 21st century... The neutrobots made it into the brains and were able to deliver the drug directly to the targeted tumors.

Currently, experts lack the ability to see what the robots are doing clearly in real time, which would be vital for any medical use of the droids down the line. But in the rat race of robotics research, it’s clear that humans are pushing their inanimate swarms in the direction of progress.

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1 posted on 03/24/2021 6:37:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

We are probably less than a decade away from hackable humans.

“Obey or die”.


2 posted on 03/24/2021 6:41:34 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: BenLurkin; Army Air Corps

Oh no!


3 posted on 03/24/2021 6:41:43 PM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: BenLurkin

I had a mouse brain once.


4 posted on 03/24/2021 6:43:37 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: cgbg

Why ask?

The ChiComs don’t need any more of us than is needed to maintain the infrastructure until they arrive to colonize.


5 posted on 03/24/2021 6:46:31 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Eddie01

“I had a mouse brain once.”
Yeah, but I kept him in my pants.


6 posted on 03/24/2021 6:51:36 PM PDT by dljordan (Slouching towards Woketopia)
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To: Rurudyne

These implants in humans will be kinda like the Associated Press wire—so that everyone can immediately know the constantly changing .gov party line—and parrot it on command.

This will become important as “science” might discover new genders every thirty seconds, and new hate crimes might be created every twenty seconds.

Ignorance of the views of the enlightened “experts” will no longer be an excuse.

This is what they mean when they say “follow the science”.

:-(


7 posted on 03/24/2021 6:52:03 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: BenLurkin

Via “vaccines”?? 💉

🙃


8 posted on 03/24/2021 6:53:05 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: BenLurkin

Fantastic Voyage here we come.


9 posted on 03/24/2021 6:55:14 PM PDT by NWFree (Socialism is legalized plunder)
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To: BenLurkin

10 posted on 03/24/2021 7:02:07 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Anti-racism looks suspiciously like racism.)
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To: BenLurkin

“In the rat race of robotics research”...

Pretty good writing.


11 posted on 03/24/2021 7:03:43 PM PDT by Kevmo (The tree of liberty is thirsty.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Rachel Welch

Now there is a hottie.


12 posted on 03/24/2021 7:05:57 PM PDT by Kevmo (The tree of liberty is thirsty.)
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To: KC_Lion

This is like the script of a Sci-Fi or Anime...


13 posted on 03/24/2021 7:05:59 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: BenLurkin

Inject them with Covid vaccine?


14 posted on 03/24/2021 7:11:22 PM PDT by Optimist
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To: BenLurkin

Great this is how the globalist socialists murder us.

God has to come back or we’re all in big trouble from the many people wishing to exterminate us.


15 posted on 03/24/2021 7:12:02 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: BenLurkin

Coming soon to a theater near you: Death Mouse.


16 posted on 03/24/2021 7:13:29 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: BenLurkin

And the robots look like Raquel Welch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO5E4wkg0hA


17 posted on 03/24/2021 7:36:01 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: Eddie01

What if you ALREADY have tiny robots in your brain? Won’t it get crowded in there? What if they get inro a battle? Asking for a friend.


18 posted on 03/24/2021 8:39:51 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: a fool in paradise

“And the robots look like Raquel Welch”

1960’s Raquel Welch is always somewhere in my brain.


19 posted on 03/24/2021 8:42:08 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: The Antiyuppie

Tell your friend, don’t think it will get too crowded.

I have room I think, as long as they don’t fuss with reruns of Trailer Park Boys, Dread Zeppelin or My Cousin Vinny.


20 posted on 03/24/2021 8:48:31 PM PDT by Eddie01
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