Hacker Noon December 27, 2019
Awan Shrestha

Imagine you go to the doctor to get treatment for a disease and instead of giving you a pill or a shot, the doctor refers you to a special medical team which implants a tiny robot into your bloodstream.

The robot travels to the appropriate system and provides a dose of medication directly into the infected area. What might seem like a scene from a science fiction movie is now coming closer to reality.

These robots are called as nanobots.

Nanobots are robots built on scale of nanometers and they are able to perform a specific task near atomic level. Currently, they are in research and development phase, but are expected to bring many breakthroughs
especially in field of medical sciences.

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Topics: Patient / Consumer, Provider, Robotics/RPA, Technology
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