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ViRob The Autonomous Microbot

Someday soon doctors will operate and cure you with tiny microbots or even nanobots.
To bring that one step closer to reality, we give you the ViRob from Technion, The Israel Institute of  Technology.
The ViRob PDF brochure states:
The robot hereby presented has the ability to crawl within cavities with similar characteristics as the typical human body’s [...]

UAVs Deliver Medical Supplies

Remote clinics in South Africa are hard to reach due to dirt roads and sometimes heavy rains. This often creates long delays in diagnosing diseases like tuberculosis.
Two UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) have been successfully tested to help with this problem and can carry medical payloads of up to 500 grams.  These former spy drones could [...]