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Scientists at the City University of Hong Kong have created a new robot. Upside: it could help deliver drugs inside the body, keeping patients healthier. Downside: it looks like a terrifying bug you wouldn’t want anywhere near your insides.<\/p>
The bot looks a cross between a caterpillar and a strip of Velcro, with ominously hairlike legs. Those legs, according to co-creator Wang Zuankai, are so that it can better navigate the various textures of your internal anatomy.<\/p>
“The rugged surface and changing texture of different tissues inside the human body make transportation challenging,” he said in a press release<\/a>. “Our multi-legged robot shows an impressive performance in various terrains” (yes he just called the tissues in your body “terrains,” it’s fine).<\/p> It’s not clear how the robot will get inside you — probably by swallowing it, right? that seems like the best of a number of not great options — but once it’s there, the idea is that it’ll crawl through your “body fluids such as blood or mucus,” according to the press release.<\/p> Then, once it reaches its destination — the release suggested a designated spot in your digestive system, for instance — it’ll release medicine.<\/p> In all seriousness, though, the bot, which is described in a new paper<\/a> published in Nature Communications<\/em>, looks like a marvelous piece of engineering. It can climb over obstacles much taller than itself and carry a payload up to 100 times its weight, according to the release. And automated gadgets that deposit drugs and collect data from inside your body are a growing area of research; some have already won approval from the FDA<\/a>.<\/p> No matter how great it is, that thing is not welcome to climb around my <\/em>insides.<\/p> READ MORE<\/strong>: Tiny soft robot with multilegs paves way for drugs delivery in human body<\/a> [EurekAlert]<\/p> More on tiny robots: Meet The World’s Smallest Robot, It’s the Size of Fly and Capable of Flight<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p> The post Scientists Want to Put a Horrifying Caterpillar Robot Inside Your Body<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> The rest is here: NIGHTMARE FUEL Scientists at the City University of Hong Kong have created a new robot. Upside: it could help deliver drugs inside the body, keeping patients healthier Continue reading PILL PUSHER<\/h2>
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