Medibots: The world’s smallest surgeons

November 20, 2009 | Source: New Scientist Health

Swimming camera capsule (The Royal College of Surgeons / Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna)

Advances in robotics could revolutionize healthcare, pushing the limits of what surgeons can achieve, from worm-inspired capsules to crawl through your gut, and systems swallowed in pieces that assemble themselves inside the body, to surgical robots that will soon be ready to embark on a fantastic voyage through our bodies, homing in on the part that’s ailing and fixing it from the inside.