Building a Self-Assembling Stomach-Bot
September 22, 2008 | Source: Technology Review
By using magnetic links between capsules, a team of European researchers hopes to build a snake-like robot that can self-assemble inside a patient’s stomach to perform different tasks: imaging, power, taking samples, etc., and link together, creating a snake-like device that could slide through the intestines, performing more-complex tasks than those performed by a single capsule or several free-floating ones.