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Tomorrow’s Mini Medical Robots Could Squirm Like Maggots

25-Jul-2017

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Franck Vernerey models his machines after maggots' squirming movement.

Robots are tiny cylinders of hydrogel that sucks up or spits out water.

Can be induced to creep through tubes.

Could crawl through flesh to deliver medicine or shred apart a tumour.

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Franck Vernerey

Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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