Microscopic robots for the early diagnosis of diseases in the welding system

Little robots are nothing new, and there are already a number of them that are created to perform different functions. However, experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology managed to do something new, and despite serious competition, created the smallest robot up to now – cell-size cell , made of two-dimensional materials, and colloidal aerosols

These tiny robots can perform environmental analysis, collect and store data, and perform various tasks and their application does not not limit to medicine, and in the future they could also find in pipelines, where they would be responsible for detecting the risks of gas leakage . In addition, they could also find in the airspace around the chemical industry in order to record the level of harmful substances in the air and, perhaps , the most interesting, human digestive system, where they were in charge of the early diagnosis of a disease

The creators this time did not focus on the mobility of the robot, but rather on the feature so small units are powered independently using a photodiode through which the power circuits are supplied in the robot. Each robot has small retroreflectors, which can be easily located after the execution of the task.

Although it takes some time for robots of this type to end up in the human body, the experts point out that