PillBot, a tiny ingestible robot, could revolutionize gut health exams with AI-powered cameras, making early detection easier from home.
Very cool, but as someone who has difficulty swallowing pills, I doubt I could get that down. Maybe if my life depended on it.
They generally don’t let the patient try to swallow these without assistance for that reason. A quick gargle with Lidocaine wash to numb the Uvula and lessen gagging, and they just pop it in the back of your throat with a little grabby tool. Works well enough.
Im hoping for something like this that can check the colon. I also have a hard time swallowing pills as well but to avoid a colonoscopy I will figure it out. Heck as it is it will prevent an endocscopy so I could do it.
currently the battery only lasts 30-4min, so no colonpscopy just yet
yeah may need one of those systems where it can generate its own power. Someday.
Ohhh I’d love to have a tiny nuclear reactor in my anus!
Sounds hot
I meant more things I have seen where the micromachine can harvest energy from body processes. Only a small amount of energy can be gotten but most of these things are pretty low energy.
Maybe it will also come in a suppository form.
It would be going against the current though and would have to be part submarine and part drill.
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The Adam Savage video about this was great
They’ve had similar pills for like 10-15 years in hospitals. They just take and transmit pictures.