Robots in your blood vessels? THIS is what is coming to a medic near you
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Scientists have experimented with soft robots which may be useful to explore human vessels in the future.
Robots and machines have become integral to almost every human endeavour now and now, they are set to enter the human body, blood vessels in particular. Now, after taking inspiration from plants and fungi, scientists have come up with a method which can make soft robots travel the tricky pathways in the body. "We were really inspired by how plants and fungi grow. We took the idea that plants and fungi add material at the end of their bodies, either at their root tips or at their new shoots, and we translated that to an engineering system," Matthew Hausladen, one of the author of the paper published in the Proceedin...