Your Meds Could Soon Come From Gummy, Edible Robots

Your Meds Could Soon Come From Gummy, Edible Robots
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Robots can conduct surgery, pacemakers can help regulate a person's heartbeat, and now robots you eat may soon start crawling around inside your intestinal tract, delivering medicine or handling other duties.

Researchers from Intelligent Systems Laboratory at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland shared new work this week on a tiny edible and digestible robotic actuator made of gelatin. The research was led by graduate student Jun Shintake.

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