Robot inspired by origami can deliver drugs at the site they are needed

A robotic with skinny magnetic plates at every finish could be steered and compressed utilizing exterior magnetic fields so it releases an correct dose of medication

By Matthew Sparkes

A wi-fi origami-inspired robotic may journey by way of the digestive system, releasing correct drug doses on the website they are going to be simplest.

Qiji Ze at Stanford College in California and his colleagues have constructed a 7.8-millimetre robotic from polypropylene movie that’s simply 0.05 millimetres thick. At every finish is a skinny magnetic plate that permits exterior magnetic fields to regulate the robotic’s motion because it travels inside a physique.

Relying on the orientation of the fields, the robotic could be made to spin, flip or …