What Are Robots Used For-Medical Robot
Published on Nov 20, 2015
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'The Proteus Chip':
The world's smallest ingestible computer.
The Proteus chip is embedded in/onto the pill, and takes a ride through your digestive tract. Even pharmacies use this to monitor patients on clinical trials, or for patients themselves to keep track of drug consumption.
To be more specific, The Proteus chip carries no antennas or power source, it is a microbot, used in patients stomachs. It is extremely tiny, and transmits a unique code picked up by an external skin patch. It takes photos of the esophagus, intestine and colon as it moves along. It is not supposed to move around a lot on it’s own, but is moved along by the pill itself and the digestive tract.
Pros and Cons
- It is painless.
- Easy to use; swallowing a pill.
- Used to screen for colon cancer
- Not affordable
- Free-floating and travelling through your body.
- Not easy to give power for the chip.
Photo by Robert S. Donovan
This robot creates the job of someone having to controlling the machinery used to guide and steer it through someone's body with magnets, like in an MRI. If anything it also gets rid of some jobs like surgeons that operate on the small things that the chip can do.
In the future, the people that designed this may use a wireless power transfer, as a source of energy for the chip. They may also create an 'army' of these robots that can perform the surgery, similar to a team of doctors.
Is this Robot Multi-Functional?
This robots only job is to take pictures and information from inside your body, and send it to a patch on your skin, which then sends it to an app on your phone.
When the invention of this robot was released the impact on it's intended audience was amazed at how micro-technology is actually in use today, especially in the medical field for surgeries.
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