We have already talked about endoscopic pills here, here, here, and here. Now, a research funded by European Union has led to the invention of ‘robot’ that can be swallowed to look for cancer. The pill sized device will travel inside the body to check for tumors and will transmit the findings back to the computer. The gadget integrates a tiny video camera to capture around 40,000 images while traveling through the intestines. Researchers hope that the new invention will be able to save thousands of lives of patients caught with painful biopsies or surgery to investigate cancer.

The invention is an upshot of inspiration from PillCam (we discussed earlier). When this new robot will travel inside the body, doctors watching the journey from a computer screen will also be able to ‘halt’ the robot and take a closer look at suspect tissue. Scientists are conducting experiments with special grippers that can be activated by an electrical signal outside the body, as well as using magnets to control the robot.

Via: dailymail