{"id":198341,"date":"2024-10-26T10:23:43","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T15:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/grain-sized-soft-robot-delivers-multiple-medications-guided-by-magnetic-fields"},"modified":"2024-10-26T10:23:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T15:23:43","slug":"grain-sized-soft-robot-delivers-multiple-medications-guided-by-magnetic-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/grain-sized-soft-robot-delivers-multiple-medications-guided-by-magnetic-fields","title":{"rendered":"Grain-sized soft robot delivers multiple medications, guided by magnetic fields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZRxuiKl_TzE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re ever faced with trying to pick up a grain of rice with a pair of chopsticks, spare a thought for the scientists behind this latest innovation, which has been called \u201ca medical breakthrough on the verge of happening.\u201d They\u2019ve painstakingly built a soft robot with the capacity to carry different types of drugs through the body. It\u2019s the size of a grain of rice, and can be driven to various internal targets via magnetic fields.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), have built on earlier work to create a grain-sized soft robot that can enter the body and be controlled by magnetic fields to travel to a specific target. Once there, it can quickly or slowly release the medication it has stored in its tiny frame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re ever faced with trying to pick up a grain of rice with a pair of chopsticks, spare a thought for the scientists behind this latest innovation, which has been called \u201ca medical breakthrough on the verge of happening.\u201d They\u2019ve painstakingly built a soft robot with the capacity to carry different types of drugs [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198341","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}