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Magnetically steerable, injectable microrobots could help treat blindness

2013-05-13 18:42:01| Extremetech

Researchers from the Institute of Robotics in Zurich, have recently developed an electromagnetically-controlled robot that can be positioned in the eye to deliver drugs. By coating their microbot with dye-containing nanospheres, the researchers have now re-purposed the device to also provide critical measurements of oxygen concentration in the eye to make quick diagnoses.

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