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Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) have developed a miniature magnetic field-guided robot for medical applications. Thanks to its flexible and soft body design, inspired by the anatomy of a pangolin, it can safely move inside the human body to non-invasively deliver drugs, stop bleeding and destroy tumors by emitting high temperatures.
The scaly anteater, also known as the pangolin, is one of the longest-lived creatures on the planet. The oldest fossil find is about 47 million years old. Experts at MPI-IS took this very animal as a model for the tool they were designing, a robot – despite the hard scales with which a pangolin’s body is covered, the whole structure remains extremely flexible. This...
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