Wireless magnetic millirobots that deliver medicine inside the beating heart

5 comments

• wetwater 40 minutes ago
  Sounds like great weapon to assassinate someone.

  Jokes apart, can anyone well versed actually tell of this is just a paper for publishing sake or is there any truth to this story ?

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  • refactor_master 8 minutes ago
    > The researchers successfully tested the robots on phantom heart models that closely mimic a human heart, and on real porcine heart tissue. The robots traveled smoothly and autonomously, even against simulated blood flow.

    “In mice” - actually not even.
• raomin 3 hours ago
  if they manage to drive small robots, they could probably also drive magnetotactic bacteria...!

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetotactic_bacteria
• divy77 1 hour ago
  electric signal based actuators is catching up after machine learning boom
• bitwize 1 hour ago
  It was only a matter of time... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRxfO7Fy0Yk
• fnordpiglet 1 hour ago
  I for one welcome our magnetic millirobot overlords into my beating heart.