Cyborg-diagnostician floats on the body
The micro robot will detect all diseases inside a person
ABC Journal based on Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council materials:
The ’living’ micro-robot that could detect diseases in humansThe joint efforts of American and British scientists have developed a prototype of a "living" miniature robot that will someday be able to diagnose any diseases while inside the human body.
The robot was named "Cyberplasm".
The micro robot combines the latest achievements of microelectronics and bionics (the creation of devices based on principles observed in wildlife). Now its length is less than 1 cm, but in the future scientists hope to reduce its size to 1 mm or even less. It has its own electronic nervous system, "eyes" and "nose" – sensors derived from mammalian cells, as well as artificial muscles that use glucose as an energy source for movement. Now scientists are working to ensure that the robot can react to light and chemicals in the way that living biological systems do.
The project is sponsored by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Great Britain and the National Science Foundation (National Science Foundation) of the USA. The prototype of the robot is a sea lamprey that lives in the Atlantic Ocean. Its nervous system is quite primitive, which makes it easier to use it as a model for bionics, besides, the lamprey is a waterfowl creature, and the micro robot also needs to learn how to swim inside the human body.
Drawing from the website cyberplasm.net – VM
According to the scientists, moving through the human body, the micro robot will transform the information received from the sensors into electrical impulses that will flow into its electronic "brain", and that, in turn, will give commands to the muscles to relax or contract. In this way, the robot will move. In addition, the information it receives will be continuously broadcast to the operator watching the robot's movement. The researchers hope to complete the prototype within 2 years and launch it into diagnostic medicine in 5 years.
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02.04.2012