{"id":115886,"date":"2020-11-15T02:22:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T10:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/scientists-seek-to-inject-microscopic-robots-into-patients-to-hunt-disease"},"modified":"2020-11-15T02:22:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T10:22:38","slug":"scientists-seek-to-inject-microscopic-robots-into-patients-to-hunt-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/scientists-seek-to-inject-microscopic-robots-into-patients-to-hunt-disease","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Seek To Inject Microscopic Robots Into Patients To Hunt Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-seek-to-inject-microscopic-robots-into-patients-to-hunt-disease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Would you be okay to have these injected in you?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Engineers at Cornell University developed a microscopic robot \u2013 so small it\u2019s invisible to the naked eye \u2013 that walks. It\u2019s so tiny that ten could fit within a period. The team says they can manufacture one million of the robots per week.<\/p>\n<p>The new robot is essentially a microchip on four origami-inspired legs that can be activated by lasers. It was designed to crawl inside the human body, find and eliminate diseases. It can be steered by beaming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intelligentliving.co\/laser-ice-repelling-treatment-airplanes\/\">laser<\/a> at its feet, which causes their leg to bend.<\/p>\n<p>Itai Cohen and Paul McEuen Labs, leaders of this invention, envisions them as a beneficial medical tool to do things like hunt down and destroy cancer cells. The micro-bots are so small they can be injected into the body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you be okay to have these injected in you? Engineers at Cornell University developed a microscopic robot \u2013 so small it\u2019s invisible to the naked eye \u2013 that walks. It\u2019s so tiny that ten could fit within a period. The team says they can manufacture one million of the robots per week. The new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}