Endoscopic surgery has used tubes for years, but now Japanese researchers have built a probe that can swim through the digestive tract:
Robots roaming freely through the human body. What could possibly go wrong?
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The device, nicknamed the "Mermaid", is about one centimetre (0.4 inches) in diameter and 4.5 (1.8 inches) long and has magnetic driving gear that allows for precise control of its direction and location.
Doctors use a joystick to control the capsule's movements, watching them on a monitor screen. It can be swallowed for examination of the stomach or inserted rectally for the colon.
Robots roaming freely through the human body. What could possibly go wrong?
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Comments (6)
But until it can also take tissue samples, it's not likely to be used much.
If nothing is found through the rectal route, they repeat the test via the oral route. That's my dad's joke.
Written by a slow twelve year old.
Had to stop at the four minute mark and induce vomiting. This guy's ready for network, and that's the worst insult I could think of without swearing.
So much effort with so little result.
Wow, umm Im trying to think of a positive and the only one I can come up with is "NEXT".