Origami Robot MIT

Quoting directly: “Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are designing an ingestible robot that could be used to patch wounds, deliver medicine or dislodge a foreign object. They call their experiment an “origami robot” because the accordion-shaped gadget gets folded up and frozen into an ice capsule.” When the ice capsule melts the robot’s biodegradable frame takes shape and moves by magnetic fields to, say, retrieve a button battery a child has swallowed. Thus far the device has only been tested in an artificial stomach. MORE

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