ETH Microrobot

Catalogs:

Overview
A remote-controlled robot the size of a grain of sand can swim through blood vessels to deliver drugs before dissolving into the body. The technology could allow doctors to administer small amounts of drugs to specific sites, avoiding the toxic side effects of body-wide therapies. The microrobots — guided by magnetic fields — work in blood vessels in pigs and sheep.
Tags

  • No tags applied

Developed by

ETH Zurich
View developer
ETH Microrobot
Image credit: The tiny, drug-filled robots are guided through blood vessels using magnets.Credit: Luca Donati/lad.studio Zürich
Ian Seed
Author: Ian Seed
Created: 2025-11-17 Modified: 2025-11-17
● Offline