#swarmrobotics #robotics #health

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#swarmrobotics #robotics #health

Originally shared by Manuela Casasoli

Although the mere thought of a swarm of microrobots burrowing into an eyeball is enough to make some people squirm, scientists believe tiny, controllable delivery vehicles could be the future of eye medicine. Now, researchers have developed a tiny, rotini-shaped spiral that could one day be deployed in the thousands for targeted drug delivery.

Schembri (2018) Watch tiny robots swim through an eyeball to deliver medicine: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/watch-tiny-robots-swim-through-eyeball-deliver-medicine

Wu et al. (2018) A swarm of slippery micropropellers penetrates the vitreous body of the eye: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/11/eaat4388
https://youtu.be/zygGq0tV0hg

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