The Pill Robot Is Coming (bloomberg.com) 34
Bloomberg has an article on a new project that MIT's Daniela Rus has been working on. They have developed a "robot," squeezed into an inch-long, 0.09-ounce pill, but it "unfolds like an origami after it's swallowed". This robot can be guided with a tiny magnet to remove a foreign object from the stomach or treat a wound by administering medication, the report says. The equipment to manipulate the robot is pricey, but its own components cost less than $100. The article talks about the next step in this project: Rus and her team have tested the robot in a silicon-molded prototype stomach and are seeking approval from MIT's animal care committee to try it in pigs. She says they're also looking to raise more money. "The experiments they've been doing are very promising," says Ken Goldberg, a robotics professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Until now, he says, "nothing has been able to essentially walk inside the body."
You Mean Robot Pill. (Score:3)
Eat me from the inside.
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I'm not clicking that.
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The Matrix Removing the Bug Scene HD
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Eat me from the inside.
This is Big Pharma's wet dream: an unfolding pill robot that rips its way out of your chest holding an enormous, bloodstained bill. For an amount more than you ever imagined was possible. Take that, Harvoni!
An inch long pill. (Score:2)
Does bloomberg realize how LARGE that is???
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And you insert it with a finglonger?
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Come on, that's a little unfair. Using the cost of an aspirin as a metric ($25 per pill in hospital vs $0.10 from store) each robot pill should cost around $25,000. Now the rental time on the machinery to run it, that might get a little pricey.
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Will be billed at $1000-$5000 per use (Score:2)
Will be billed at $1000-$5000 per use
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most likely around 3-5K when insurances accept it as a valid procedure. probably similar to the EUS bills
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Hold still Neo... (Score:2)
We think you're bugged.
0.09-ounce? (Score:2)
That's 2.55 grams for those who like sensible measurements.
Dupe Post (Score:2)
Same topic (different article [washingtonpost.com]
) was submitted by myself on Friday May 13, 2016 @09:58AM
The Washington Post article was longer and had more info, if not as much formatting.
We have ways to make you talk, Mr Anderson (Score:1)
Got bug?
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly (Score:3)
FTFA:
The only thing a patient would have to do, in theory, is swallow — a bit like gulping down a spider to catch a wayward fly.
Probably not the most confidence-inducing analogy, as our childhood nursery rhymes have already taught us how that one turns out...
I've seen this somewhere before. (Score:2)
You could put Raquel Welch into one of these pills and send her in to wipe away the blockages. That would be a fantastic voyage. However I imagine she might not fit into a pill case these days.
Why I welcome our robotic pill overlord (Score:2)
To anybody who has ever had one of those long metallic "snakes" shoved up or down an orifice for medical examinations while awake will likely welcome this technology. Trust, me, "the snake" is sooo f8cking uncomfortable. I won't ever do the snake while awake again unless my life is directly on the line.
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It's so unpleasant, I didn't want to google its real name.
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I haven't really been keeping up on that. There is CDBF for Linux shareware you can try. Also, older versions of MS-Access could open them. Older ODBC drivers may also allow access. Is this a one-time export, or continuous editing?
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Really sucks what Microsoft did with FoxPro: they should have made it open source if they weren'