Today’s Totally Cool Tech: Self-Assembling Medical Robots (via Technology Review )

Doctors have long sought better ways to examine the workings of the human body without having to cut their patients open and

there is a large demand from physicians to have a steerable, motion-controlled camera.

A swallowable camera, little bigger than a normal pill, can already snap pictures as it floats through the stomach and intestine, offering a less invasive way to perform diagnosis than an endoscope or surgery. Now a consortium of European researchers is testing a way to connect several swallowable devices to create a surgical “robot” that would self-assemble inside the stomach.

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