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Robot-capsule Sticks to Animal Intestines Without Damaging Tissues: Research
The researchers say that the anchoring robot can be swallowed like a normal pill, and move through the body until it reaches the gut.
With the help of a wireless control, they add, a doctor can tell the robot when to expand its legs and anchor.
The research team believes that such a robot can make it possible to peer painlessly inside the human body, and revolutionise biopsies, drug delivery, heat treatment, and other treatment applications.
Mark Schattner, a gastroenterologist at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center who was not involved in the work, thinks that such robotic tools may help control the movement of camera pills that have been in use for transmitting images of the intestines for the past several years.
"The number-one use would be biopsy. The other would be control of bleeding--if you could cauterize or laser a source of bleeding, that would be (a) major therapeutic use," says Schattner.
Though the CMU robot is not yet ready for such uses, its ability to safely anchor in the body is being seen as the first step in realising more-advanced applications.
Metin Sitti, a professor and principal investigator of the NanoRobotics Lab at CMU, has revealed that the trick to making the robot was finding an adhesive that would "stick repeatedly to tissues like intestines, oesophagus, stomach, heart, and kidney surfaces."
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