Tiny little machines small enough to travel through the human body, with blood cells along veins, for example, have long been one of the goals of technologists in healthcare science.
In the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and inserted into the body of a patient to perform brain surgery.
This may have seemed total fantasy at the time, but technology has advanced so much that it almost seems like a realistic goal now. [Read more…] about Tiny robots hold promise of better healthcare treatments
