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 Share This- Worm-inspired robot crawls through intestines - tech - 06 June 2006 -...
 Jun 7, 2006 4:15am  (1 review) robotics http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?i...- A robot designed to crawl through the human gut by mimicking the wriggling motion of an undersea worm has been developed by European scientists. It could one day help doctors diagnose disease by carrying tiny cameras through patients' bodies.
The team behind the robot includes scientists from Italy, Germany, Greece and the UK. They modelled it on polychaetes, or "paddle worms", which use tiny paddles on their body segments to push through sand, mud or water.
Would you be willing to have one of these crawl through your gut?
Discuss this story >> "We turned to biological inspiration because, in the peculiar environment of the gut, traditional forms of robotic locomotion don't work," says Arianna Menciassi, a roboticist from the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy.
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