Nano-Medical Robotics
What is a nano-medical robot you ask? Here’s one example: a Vascular Cartographic Scanning Nanodevice (VCSN) that can travel “Fantastic Voyage-like” through the major arteries, down to the smallest capillary, and image the passage in high definition 3-D. What’s the implication of nano-medicine?: says this piece, “practically every type of invasive surgical procedure could be rendered obsolete, as all corrective activities may be conducted in vivo by interactive multitudes of nano-medical cell repair devices, under the direct control of outbody human surgeons and dedicated computers.” While this is emerging, it would be nice if wrong-site surgeries and sponges left in bodies became things of the past. MORE PLUS LINK TO A RELATED INTERVIEW
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