Charting a course: Yellow dots represent the path that tiny robots will take through blood vessels.
Credit: The NanoRobotics Laboratory, École Polytechnique de Montréal (EPM)
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Steering Microbots
Bacteria-based robots swim through blood vessels
Source: "Flagellated Bacterial Nanorobots for Medical Interventions in the Human Body"
Sylvain Martel et al.
IEEE 2008 Biorobotics Conference, October 19-22, 2008, Scottsdale, AZ
Results: Researchers have coupled swimming bacteria to 150-nanometer-wide beads, creating tiny robots that can be steered inside blood vessels using magnetic fields controlled with a modified magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device. The MRI can also be used to track the robots.
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