See How Robots Would Deliver Medicine to the Heart (VIDEO)
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The robots work in pairs. There’s one the team calls the needle module, which gently latches onto heart tissue right at the infected site. There it serves as a docking station, waiting right on the beating heart for the drug module. The drug module carries medicine to the docking station where it magnetically docks and slowly releases the antibiotics right where they’re most needed.
Both robots are magnetic and guided wirelessly by an external electromagnetic coil system, that works like an MRI machine.
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