Technology Review: Videos

You must have JavaScript enabled to view our videos. Please ensure JavaScript is enabled in your browser preferences and that plugins that block JavaScript, such as noscript, are disabled.

Controlling a Gut Bot's Position: By Kristina Grifantini - Thursday, July 31, 2008; Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have made a swallowable capsule robot that they can anchor to specific spots in the gut. In the center of the capsule robot rests a leg; the transparent polymer elastomer footpad is visible. The footpads are covered with oil-coated micropillars that stick to tissue without damaging it.; Video by Metin Sitti, Carnegie Mellon University - Read the Article

Next Video

: Solar Sailing in Space; NASA’s Dean Alhorn, lead engineer for the NanoSail-D satellite, demonstrates how the spacecraft will deploy its solar sail in space.

More Videos

Letters from The Editor

Bendable Magnetic Interface A sensing surface developed by Microsoft researchers offers...	Making 3D Maps on the Move The Remotely Operated and Autonomous Mapping System (ROAMS)...	Biodegradable Transistors Zhenan Bao, an associate professor of chemical engineering,...	Helping Hands This robotic rehabilitation device from Northeastern...
A Robotic Gait Corrector This device, one of several robotic rehabilitation tools from...	Robo-Rehab for MRIs This robotic rehabilitation device from Northeastern...	Sequencing Price Drops Even Lower This time-lapse video shows tightly packed balls of DNA being...	Stealthy Nanoparticles Attack Cancer Cells Jeff Hrkach and Greg Troiano of BIND Biosciences explain how...
Testing Cheap Wind Power A continuously variable transmission could lead to cheaper...	Muscle-Computer Interface Meets Microsoft’s Surface This clip shows a muscle-computer interface coupled to...	Muscle-Bound Computer Interface This video shows how a muscle-sensing computer interface...	Microsoft's Many Multitouch Mice Microsoft’s five multitouch mouse prototypes--the Orb, Arty,...

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Next

Massachusetts Institute of Technology