Robots-Origami to heal your stomach from the inside

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A collaboration between English, Japanese and American engineers has come to fruition by creating a robot origami"Who is able to slip into a patient's body to treat stomach wounds by being remotely controlled: enough to avoid surgery!

The little robot comes in a form rectangular, who is condensed into a capsule (in ice during testing) to be swallowed by a sick individual. After ingestion via the esophagus, when it is found in the stomach, the capsule is dissolved (with heat) and robot-origami takes place to resume its original shape and size in order to find all of its features.

The origami robot

It is then thanks to a remote control that works with a magnetic field external that the nanobot struggles as best he can for remove a foreign element stuck in the stomach, to treat an injury or deliver a medicine to a specific place. It can indeed lift an intruder and thus allow it to be eliminated by the digestive system.

The inventors of the tool specify that it could for example be used to remove an accidentally swallowed button cell, something that happens 3500 times a year in the United States (yes, yes). Often eliminated naturally, it may happen that it burns the stomach wall after prolonged contact with it and thus adheres to the tissues.

The biggest problem faced by researchers from MIT, from its equivalent to Tokyo and fromUniversity of Sheffield, has been to find materials compatible with contact with internal mucosa, but also with the required operation and with a remote control system. They have tested nearly a dozen materials before opting for … fried pork intestines, traditionally used to wrap sausages.

The next step will be to try the same thing in vivo, with an improved robot thanks to the integration of new sensors and a redesigned system allowing it to be autonomous… Like drones that could replace $ 127 billion in jobs, this concentrated technology has a future!

You can watch the experience in the video below:

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