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Robot Invented To Crawl Through Veins

theinquirer.net — SCIENTISTS FROM Israel's Technion University have unveiled a tiny robot, made using Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) technology, purportedly able to crawl through a person's veins in order to diagnose and potentially treat artery blockage and cancer.

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  • illepic, on 07/06/2009, -4/+34I, for one, welcome our alien vein-crawling overlords.
  • Dealjobber, on 07/07/2009, -1/+21So this is how the Borg started out.
  • Hero0fTime, on 07/07/2009, -0/+18Goddamn! This is like Magic School Bus *****.
  • nothing4me, on 07/07/2009, -1/+19im in ur veinz checkin out ur artariez
  • cnot3, on 07/07/2009, -0/+18with lasers
  • BenjB, on 07/07/2009, -0/+16I wonder how it feels.
  • Nesh, on 07/07/2009, -0/+14CRAWLING IN MY SKIIIIIIN!!
  • StutterMilk, on 07/07/2009, -3/+16It funny because if it gets a Blue Screen of Death, you actually die.
  • cnot3, on 07/07/2009, -0/+11It's all well and good until that thing enters your cerebral cortex.
  • borez, on 07/07/2009, -0/+11It crawls.

    "ontrolling the tiny bot externally means boffins have been able to shrink it to a previously impossibly tiny scale, allowing it to crawl its way through the typical human body's veins and arteries using miniscule outstretched arms which grip the vessel walls"
  • gianthorse, on 07/07/2009, -0/+8damnit. beat me to it. but for kicks..

    PLEASE LET THIS BE A NORMAL FIELD TRIP!
  • inactive, on 07/06/2009, -2/+9Creepy.
  • gianthorse, on 07/07/2009, -0/+7Climb on the MAGIC SCHOOL BUS!
  • iceregulus, on 07/07/2009, -0/+6With the Frizz? NO WAY!
  • foopirata, on 07/07/2009, -0/+6@Rodik: בהצלחה!!
  • gitargr8, on 07/07/2009, -0/+5Personally, my mind jumped to Innerspace, but I'm a sap for any movie that has Denis Quaid inside Martin Short.

    Maybe I am gay...
  • tzvika613, on 07/07/2009, -0/+5Good luck !
  • spriggig, on 07/07/2009, -0/+5Hang in there Ray! The Singularity is coming!
  • blackraven3600, on 07/07/2009, -2/+6Haha, I think the wording is scaring people "Crawl Through Veins", more like "Flow through veins", much less scary that way :p
  • mongo25, on 07/07/2009, -1/+4"That's not a blocked artery doctor.... we're inside the urethra!"
  • twiztidsinz, on 07/07/2009, -0/+3I'm all set with that...
  • Rodik, on 07/07/2009, -8/+11Crap... and i'm trying to apply to this university in 3 months... wish me luck guys.
  • inactive, on 07/07/2009, -4/+7Its amazing how Israel can consistently make these fantastic technological advances, especially since Digg wants us to believe that Palestine and Lebanon are far superior places.
  • foopirata, on 07/07/2009, -0/+3For that you gotta go to Bar-Ilan, I think. Considering the dress code, at least.
  • Galphanore, on 07/07/2009, -1/+4Probably because if you actually RTFA you see that they specifically designed it to have a "cross sectional area on the tiny robot apparently allows fluids to flow with minimal interference making intra-vascular motion more feasible".
  • Rodik, on 07/08/2009, -0/+3thank you thank you all! now excuse me, i gotta go do psychometery homework.
  • serif69, on 07/07/2009, -2/+5I'M POSSESSED!!!
    (Reference for you youngins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLAbTbGQcr8 )
  • StrangeFamous, on 07/07/2009, -0/+3Anyone ever ride Body Wars in Epcot Center?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUjSr9YV860
  • Rodik, on 07/08/2009, -0/+3@tzvika613 lol!
  • one1plus1one, on 07/07/2009, -1/+3Except that they're not aliens... they're probably made in China.
  • hasslinthehoff, on 07/07/2009, -0/+2That'll be two Big Macs, large fry and a large shake. Thank you.
  • vodkataime, on 07/08/2009, -0/+2Hey cool we're making robots to help huma- OH MY GOD THERE'S A ROBOT IN MY VEINS
  • craiginct, on 07/08/2009, -0/+2They are still too big I'll wait for Ver 2 or Ver 3
    and when they can scrape the mcdonalds from my arteries.
  • tzvika613, on 07/07/2009, -1/+3Just being from Hadera should entitle you to some college unit credits toward that degree in horribleness.
  • foopirata, on 07/07/2009, -0/+2I don't know no Victors. I know a Boris though. But he's a math professor, not a historian.
  • MaxChaplin, on 07/07/2009, -0/+2They should inject about two hundred of those into Chester Bennington and order them to devour him, so his wounds they will not heal.
  • BrendanSheehan, on 07/07/2009, -0/+2does the moonwalk
  • Nudar, on 07/07/2009, -2/+4How does it diagnose and treat artery blockage when it crawls through veins?
  • Xeth, on 07/07/2009, -0/+2It's on the move... you're going to lose it!
  • charlietuna, on 07/07/2009, -2/+3Somebody tell Richard Gere. I think the hamsters are now officially out of work!
  • numponascrape, on 07/07/2009, -0/+1sounds like Scabies.
  • kingp, on 07/07/2009, -1/+2Anyone else read the title as "Robot Chicken To Crawl Through Veins"?
  • inactive, on 07/07/2009, -1/+2The military must be rubbing their hands with this one.

    Still, things gonna need a jackhammer if it wants to see my veins..
  • antc1986, on 07/08/2009, -0/+1That's what the blood-brain barrier is for!



    Keeping out little robots.
  • MistySteele, on 07/08/2009, -0/+1we already have better technology for this, they're called bacteria, and you can genetically program them to do all sorts of amazing things.
  • Czaja, on 07/07/2009, -0/+1Then it's hilarious.
  • WELLDOITLIVE, on 07/07/2009, -1/+2I'm in ur veins, poopin in ur blood
  • WELLDOITLIVE, on 07/07/2009, -1/+2Carlos!
  • bazzarr, on 07/08/2009, -0/+1 Imagine if that got stuck in your urethra. Backwards.
  • TheInformer, on 07/07/2009, -0/+1Seven of Nine called.

    She wants her nanoprobes back.
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