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Attack of the Edible Robots

Author(s) -

Kayt Sukel

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

mechanical engineering

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.117

H-Index - 17

eISSN - 1943-5649

pISSN - 0025-6501

DOI - 10.1115/1.2019-aug2

Subject(s) - robot , ulcerative colitis , digestive tract , space (punctuation) , computer science , artificial intelligence , gastrointestinal tract , medicine , computer vision , pathology , disease , operating system

Robots are designed to go where humans cannot, places that are too inaccessible or dangerous. The human gastrointestinal tract is one of them. The average GI tract packs 30 feet of twists and turns into a compact space, and it is filled with gastric juices, acids, and waste. Its size and complexity makes it difficult for physicians to image, much less diagnose many digestive diseases, ranging from ulcerative colitis to colorectal cancer. Edible robots may be the solution, and may one day help surgeons operate more precisely as well.

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