Robot doctor to the rescue
Meet Dr Robot: about the size of a lipstick case, it's able to drive around inside your body and serve as the eyes or hands of a surgeon who could be thousands of miles away
University of Nebraska researchers have developed the tiny machines, which they say could allow doctors to remotely conduct surgeries on the battlefield or even in space.
The tiny, wheeled robots, which are about 7.6 centimetres tall, can be slipped into small incisions and computer-controlled by surgeons in different locations.
On battlefields, the robots could enable surgeons in other places to work on injured soldiers on the front line, said Shane Farritor, a university engineering professor who helped design them.
A robot capable of doing biopsies is in the works and another is being designed that can be inserted into a person's stomach via the oesophagus.
Researchers said they will be able to create smaller robots once they start making them in larger quantities.
Resource: News24
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