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The Future is Scary – Vein Robots

July 1st, 2009  |  Filed under: Daily Post, Jack's Show & Tell, Jack's Sports, WTF

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This little robotic bug may soon be crawling through your lungs zapping tissue! Yes, it’s true. Good news is it will zap tumors. For now….dun dun dun

Researchers at the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa have developed a miniature crawling robot, called ViRob, that can crawl through your lungs, find a tumor, and zap it with drugs. The bot, which is one millimeter long and four millimeters from end to end, can snake its way through the body, slipping into blood vessels and navigating through the respiratory and digestive systems, Innerspace style. Full Story

The article also says it can “race through a vein and burrow into an organ” Sounds a bit disturbing, cancer killing bug now and scifi horror movie the next. I can see it now…

5 Responses to “The Future is Scary – Vein Robots”

  1. Kimmy

    What the drug companies don’t realize is that if they finally cure cancer, they’ll still make $$$$$ on high blood pressure, high cholesterol, etc.

  2. Jill

    Interesting!!!

  3. Kim

    Freaky a bit but fantastic, technology is amazing!!1

  4. Joe

    Wow life is turing into a scifi movie

  5. debbi

    …where can I get mine

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