Robot and robotechnology news
01.01.1970 //Robot, which is moved along the spinal channel of man.
You do remember fantastic films, stories about the microscopic robots, which travel inside the man? Very recently we already sufficed by the witnesses of idea by the Israeli scientists of a similar development, which makes it possible to produce studies from within. But today's development, headed by colleagues Moshe Shoham Haifa's Technion, is called to carry out considerably more complex and more unforeseen work - to travel along the spinal channel of man. If to be precise, the scientists of this center was created not the robot itself, which gathers information for the doctors, but the system of towing, which ensures the motion of "pill" along the spinal channel. This device must answer sufficiently to stringent requirements - to be by miniature, to stably work. But the main thing is this is the ability of sensitive control and manipulation during the journey in the cerebro-spinal fluid of man. One additional important special feature - energy consumption of device. The charge of battery must be sufficient to entire process of experiment. Robot it is planned to equip with video camera, or system, which conducts biopsy. Similar options will considerably enlarge the possibilities of device, will allow it to use as an endoscope and to conduct additional studies. Unfortunately, now this only of idea.