ingestible origami robot unfolds from capsule, removes button battery stuck to wall of simulated stomach (w video) /

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In experiments involving a simulation of the human esophagus and stomach,researchers at MIT, the University of Sheffield, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology bear demonstrated a tiny origami robot that can unfold itself from a swallowed capsule and,steered by external magnetic fields, crawl across the stomach wall to remove a swallowed button battery or patch a wound.

Source: phys.org

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