Rise of the medibots

It may not be the nano-sized autonomous bots roaming your body fixing dodgy parts and eliminating disease, but this article in New Scientist reveals what nanotechnologies are or soon will be helping achieve in the field of robotic medicine.

It may not be the nano-sized autonomous bots roaming your body fixing dodgy parts and eliminating disease, but this article in New Scientist reveals what nanotechnologies are or soon will be helping achieve in the field of robotic medicine.  The first generation of mini-bots may indeed infiltrate our insides with the role of taking tissue samples, delivering drugs or installing medical devices.