AWARD YEAR
2017
CATEGORY
Body
GOALS
Good Health & Well-being
KEYWORDS
robotics , healthcare, origami
COUNTRY
United States of America
DESIGNED BY
MIT, The university of Sheffield, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology
WEBSITE
http://news.mit.edu/2016/ingestible-origami-robot-0512
Ingestible origami robot
A tiny ingestible robot that can perform tasks inside the body
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.