Their hope is that they can deliver medicine to hard-to-reach places inside the human body.
Of course, this development has not come to pass yet, but the innovation is a huge step forward.
During the research, the team was successful at deploying fleets of these machines to transport doses of dexamethasone, a common steroid medication, to the bladders of lab mice. The microrobots are made out of materials called biocompatible polymers using a technology similar to 3D printing.were tested on a common problem for humans: bladder disease.
They introduced thousands of those bots into the bladders of lab mice and watched as they dispersed through the organs before sticking onto the bladder walls, which would likely make them difficult to pee out.
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