We've seen plenty of
pill bots in our day -- most of the dumb little swallowable cameras -- but Carnegie Mellon University isn't messing around with this stuff. The nerds over there have built a remote controlled pillbot with small, adhesive arms that allow it to grip onto internal surfaces. That is to say, your internal surfaces. The pill can view damaged areas, deliver drugs and might eventually be outfitted with a small laser for cauterizing internal wounds. Yes, we just said lasers.
[Via
Hack a Day]
Read - Controlling a Gut Bot's Position
Read - Creepy action video
posted Aug 6th 2008 at 4:32PM
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
peshue @ Aug 6th 2008 4:38PM
Tiny freakin' lasers
BigD145 @ Aug 6th 2008 5:50PM
Candiru with freakin' laser beams on their heads.
Zak @ Aug 6th 2008 4:43PM
If it has lasers, I'm all for it.
JDGATX @ Aug 6th 2008 4:51PM
Now if they can just shape the bots like sharks, we're golden.
phanbouy @ Aug 6th 2008 5:05PM
goldenmember, even
kjb434 @ Aug 6th 2008 5:37PM
I don't know about you, but tiny little robots that can walk inside of you freak me out.
JSY @ Aug 6th 2008 5:39PM
Is DARPA funding this? 'Cos it's only a matter of time before someone turns these babies into killer nanobots.
You think you're taking Tylenol, but little do you know you're swallowing your own doom!
godspeedgen2 @ Aug 6th 2008 7:02PM
did anyone hear the guy say "Thats what she said!" on the action video at the last scene... its a short clip with the person holding the bot. I can only imagine the conversation that spawned that moment. hahaha
tha-don @ Aug 6th 2008 7:52PM
i'm gonna guess it had to do with swallowing the pillbot
why not the LS2LS7? @ Aug 6th 2008 7:25PM
That looks nothing like Meg Ryan.
I found the original art on imdb, it doesn't look like her there either. And on the alternate art there, she looks like the Joker.
eric @ Aug 7th 2008 12:34AM
The worlds smallest hug.