{"id":164709,"date":"2023-05-28T17:22:29","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T22:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/medical-microrobots-could-one-day-treat-bladder-disease-other-human-illnesses"},"modified":"2023-05-28T17:22:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T22:22:29","slug":"medical-microrobots-could-one-day-treat-bladder-disease-other-human-illnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/medical-microrobots-could-one-day-treat-bladder-disease-other-human-illnesses","title":{"rendered":"Medical \u2018microrobots\u2019 could one day treat bladder disease, other human illnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/medical-microrobots-could-one-day-treat-bladder-disease-other-human-illnesses.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder has designed a new class of tiny, self-propelled robots that can zip through liquid at incredible speeds\u2014and may one day even deliver prescription drugs to hard-to-reach places inside the human body.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers describe their mini healthcare providers in a paper published last month in the journal <i>Small<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine if microrobots could perform certain tasks in the body, such as non-invasive surgeries,\u201d said Jin Lee, lead author of the study and a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. \u201cInstead of cutting into the patient, we can simply introduce the robots to the body through a pill or an injection, and they would perform the procedure themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder has designed a new class of tiny, self-propelled robots that can zip through liquid at incredible speeds\u2014and may one day even deliver prescription drugs to hard-to-reach places inside the human body. The researchers describe their mini healthcare providers in a paper published last month in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164709","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}