One of the primary reasons for heat attacks and other cardiac related illnesses is artery blockage. Although, with the advances in medical sciences, doctors are able to determine these blockages, yet in many cases, it becomes too late for the patients and live are lost.

But now, some of the most brilliant minds working at Israel’s Technion University have designed and developed a minuscule robot, that would be able to find its way through a patient’s veins and will be able to locate and perhaps even treat artery blockages and cancer. This microbot is developed on Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) platform.

The robot is powered by a magnetic field that is superimposed on it from outside the patients body. There are no electrical device on board to propel this robot, hence it uses this magnetic field  to roam around and complete its tasks.

The microbot has been scaled to a size previously unimaginable, enabling it to crawl through the spaces the size of a human vein or an artery. This medical marvel is designed in the shape of a fly and using its outstretched arms, it clings to the vessel walls, that provides it the grip it requires for stable propulsion.

The team that developed this robot states that, the microbot will be able to withstand the pressures of blood flow in the veins and will also be able to self navigate from the point of insertion to the extraction point without losing its programmed destination.

Apart from, their contribution in the field of medical sciences, the scientists at the Technion University are also working on another robot, that could very well be the size of an ant, to help plug leaks in the urban water distribution systems.

Via The Inquirer.