Ingestible origami surgical robot (a real-world Transformer)

OK, maybe not quite a Transformer. But, researchers at MIT, the University of Sheffield, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology have demonstrated how a tiny origami robot can unfold itself from a swallowed capsule and crawl across the stomach wall to remove a swallowed button battery or patch a wound. The robot is steered by external magnetic fields.Source: MIT News
Source: Medicine and Technology by Dr. Joseph Kim - Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs