Robotic Stomach Repair For People

Ingestible Origami Robot (+Video)

Robot unfolds from ingestible capsule, removes button battery stuck to wall of simulated stomach.

Larry Hardesty | May 12, 2016

In experiments involving a simulation of the human esophagus and stomach, researchers at MIT, the University of Sheffield, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology have demonstrated a tiny origami robot that can unfold itself from a swallowed capsule and, steered by external magnetic fields, crawl across the stomach wall to remove a swallowed button battery or patch a wound.
The new work, which the researchers are presenting this week at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, builds on a long sequence of papers on origami robots from the research group of Daniela Rus, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

The origami robot unfolds in the stomach and can be steered by external magnetic fields. Source: http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/ingestible-origami-robot/

<more at http://news.mit.edu/2016/ingestible-origami-robot-0512; related articles and links: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/05/13/origami-robot-can-be-swallowed-in-pill-and-then-sent-on-missions/ (+Video) ('Origami robot' can be swallowed in pill and then sent on missions in the human body. May 13, 2016) and http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/ingestible-origami-robot/ (+Video) (Swallowed a battery? This ingestible origami robot will get it out, May 14, 2016)>