#origami robot

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Decrypt the origami robot technology used in Mercedes-Benz's concept car...

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Self folding origami robot is amazing!

This is incredible!  

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Video: Swallow this robot, it will come ‘alive’ in stomach to act as surgeon

Video: Swallow this robot, it will come ‘alive’ in stomach to act as surgeon

Unveiled at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, in Stockholm. (more…)

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A small robot lived somewhere in her digestive tract, swallowed at one point to remove a foreign object but now a pet foreign object, crinkly and magnetic.

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Digestible Origami Robot from MIT helps in removal of outside object

Digestible Origami Robot from MIT helps in removal of outside object

MIT recently showcased its news Digestible Origami Robot that will help in tackling foreign objects, patching inside wounds and can also deliver medicine to the designated location. This is not the first time MIT have developed a robot of this kind. In the year 2005, they came up with a robot but the design was flawed. The new Digestible Origami Robot is completely new and quite significant. It…

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If your child swallowed a piece of toy, this robot will remove it from the stomach

If your child swallowed a piece of toy, this robot will remove it from the stomach

Origami robot will help your child to have a carefree childhood, there is a solution for the swallowed toys and objects. If you have young children it is very likely that you may have encountered the inconvenience to your playful successor swallowed an object that is not allowed, such as bits of toys, buttons and so on. Fortunately, in most cases nature take its course and the respective flip…

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'Origami robot in a pill' could carry out remote control stomach ops

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'Origami robot in a pill' could carry out remote control stomach ops

Scientists are trialling a miniature robot that can perform remote-controlled surgery after unfolding itself inside a person's stomach. Small enough to be hidden in a capsule made of ice and swallowed, the tiny electronic device can be steered around the stomach by doctors using a magnet field to move it into position to grab and extract foreign objects or repair internal injuries. The robot is folded like an accordion when enclosed in the capsule. It contains a magnet that not only responds to external magnetic fields, but can also be used to pick up a button battery.

This concept is both highly creative and highly practical, and it addresses a clinical need in an elegant way.

Bradley Nelson, a professor of robotics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

The mini robot propels itself using a "stick-slip" motion, in which it sticks to the stomach through friction when it executes a move, but slips free again when its body flexes to change its weight distribution. Professor Daniela Rus, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said: "It's really exciting to see our small origami robots doing something with potential important applications to health care. For applications inside the body, we need a small, controllable, untethered robot system. It's really difficult to control and place a robot inside the body if the robot is attached to a tether."