• Researchers experiment with drug-delivering robot... implanted in an eye
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[quote=Engaget] [img]http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/03/robot-drugs-eye-03-11-2011.jpg[/img] If the notion of a tiny robot swimming around in your eye leaves you a bit uneasy then, well, you might want to stop right here. For the rest of you, though, you may be interested in some new tests now being conducted by Michael Kummer and his team of researchers at the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems in Zurich, Switzerland. What you're looking at above is a pig's eye, and the tiny black spec near the top is a microbot that's able to roam around the eye with the aid of an electromagnetic system. While things are still obviously very early, the researchers say the microbots could eventually be used to precisely deliver drugs in humans, and treat issues like macular degeneration. Head on past the break for the video. [/quote] Source: [url]http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/11/researchers-experiment-with-drug-delivering-robot-implanted-i/[/url] Video in source
Disturbing, to say the least.
I don't see why they would put it in the eye.
Next will be a brain.... Cant say i am looking forward to it.
damn this makes me cringe
I don't see what all the fuss is about. :smug:
420 smoke eyeballs err day seriously though for lack of a better alternative i'd definitely use eyeball drugs.
Tell me when they make one that can be injected in someplace that isn't your fucking EYE. Ow, jesus. What sick fuck decides that little crawly robots must be jammed in people's EYES?!
what an eyeful, but one small step til robots are fixing us all up!
Was anyone else reminded of farscape when they saw this thread?
I have to admit, I did not see anything like this coming.
Wait, your eye is LIQUID inside? I thought it was mostly solid with some blood :ohdear:
[QUOTE=jdme;28565565]Wait, your eye is LIQUID inside? I thought it was mostly solid with some blood :ohdear:[/QUOTE] There is almost no blood inside an eye, just a but from these blood vessels around
So in the future they'll be able to deliver drugs... what does the one that's already in someone's eye do? Edit: Derp never mind, it's a pig's eye.
I'm generally very happy about advancements in general, but any piece of metal or carbon (hurr durr the eye is made out of carbon hur dur) approaching my eye is enough to paralyse me in eternal shock.
I would want this just so I can have a robot in me. Thats awesome. [editline]12th March 2011[/editline] If only science was a female :sigh:
Why the hell does everyone want to be robots?... Atleast the nerds seem to
[QUOTE=Garik;28566499]Why the hell does everyone want to be robots?... Atleast the nerds seem to[/QUOTE] Because a single brain inside a single case made out of bone is so frail it's ridiculous.
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;28566535]Because a single brain inside a single case made out of bone is so frail it's ridiculous.[/QUOTE] Do you have any fucking clue how strong bone really is? [editline]12th March 2011[/editline] Also [img]http://i.imgur.com/KeAyP.png[/img] :gonk:
Im fine with this as long as i get ALOT of god damn painkillers.
[img]http://www.plasticbrickautomaton.com/comics/3.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=GhostPhoster;28567798][img_thumb]http://www.plasticbrickautomaton.com/comics/3.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] :whoptc:
[QUOTE=VistaPOWA;28568438]:whoptc:[/QUOTE] It's Legorobot, what do you expect? :razz:
what an eyesore
My vision is augmented.
[QUOTE=jdme;28565565]Wait, your eye is LIQUID inside? I thought it was mostly solid with some blood :ohdear:[/QUOTE] Nope, it's filled with a clear - yellowy jelly that fills out the eye, then a lens at the front with a muscle or two to control its shape and how much light gets into the eye and a few blood vessels running around the outside of the sphere, with a nice retina at the back. It's almost completely liqiud, and there is little to no blood.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALquuqokPTc[/media]
Reminds me of that rapper who injected PCP into his eyes and ate a hooker.
[QUOTE=bigdan;28557380]Next will be a brain.... Cant say i am looking forward to it.[/QUOTE] You will be updated, or you will be deleted.
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