NEW VIDEO: Magnetic Micro-Robots! (Patreon)

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2019-04-25 15:55:38

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2026-06

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So I had no idea this research was a thing until last week. There have been a number of papers published recently about the things you can do by manufacturing devices with particular magnetic properties.

You can drive them with external magnetic fields to grasp, roll, and jump. These could be used for internal medicine application.

Smaller robots have been shown to form swarms that can take many different forms to help them navigate the human body. There are even tiny magnetic 'tweezers' being used to poke organelles inside living cells. Apparently how an organelle responds to pressure can be used to diagnose diseases.

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Magnetic Micro-Robots

Tiny robots activated by magnetic fields may be used in future biomedical procedures. Start listening to Audible with a 30-day trial and your first audiobook, plus two Audible Originals free when you go to http://audible.com/veritasium or text veritasium to 500500 Huge thanks to: Dr. Eric Diller, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Toronto Research Referenced in this video: "Millimeter-Scale Flexible Robots with Programmable Three-Dimensional Magnetization and Motions," by T. Xu; J. Zhang; M. Salehizadeh; O. Onaizah; E. Diller http://robotics.sciencemag.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.aav4494 "Reconfigurable magnetic microrobot swarm: multi-mode transformation, locomotion and manipulation," by H. Xie; M. Sun; X. Fan; Z. Lin; W. Chen; L. Wang; Q. He http://robotics.sciencemag.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.aav8006 "Catalytic antimicrobial robots for biofilm eradication," by G. Hwang; A.J. Paula; E.E. Hunter; Y.Liu; A. Babeer; B. Karabucak; K. Stebe; V. Kumar; E. Steager; H. Koo http://robotics.sciencemag.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.aaw2388 Special thanks to Patreon supporters: Donal Botkin, Michael Krugman, Ron Neal, Stan Presolski, Terrance Shepherd, Penward Rhyme Music by Kevin MacLeod http://incompetech.com "Marty Gots a Plan" "March of the Spoons"