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Building a Self-Assembling Stomach-Bot
By Kristina Grifantini - Monday, September 22, 2008
The team at ETH Zurich tested a single and double magnet setup to see which works better for robotic capsule self-assembly. The hope is to eventually construct a self-assembling, surgical robot that can investigate the intestines.
Video by Zoltán Nagy, Christina Haupt, and Raymond Oung - Read the Article

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