You can feel it in your veins, but this isn't a sense of unease or impending victory—it's a 1mm-wide Israeli-made robot designed to crawl around the human bloodstream. Traversing the meat pipes, the tiny insect-like device is remote controlled with magnetic fields.
Gripping vein and artery walls with a fan of tiny arms, the robot can adjust to varying diameters. There's no specific purpose mentioned, however, though clearing heart disease-causing goo must be top of the list.
One interesting element to this gadget is that it's co-created by a researcher from the College of Judea and Samaria. This insitution is a principal target of a bizarre and aggressively stupid boycott of Israeli academia proposed by British academics, concocted as some kind of hamfisted attempt to punish Israel for the Palestinian crisis. One can't help but wonder if the broad net goes so far as to boycott such life-saving technologies.
Israeli scientists unveil mini-robot that can travel through bloodstream [Haaretz via Engadget]
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