MINIATURE SPIDER ROBOT SWARM – MEDICAL TREATMENT – GERMANY RESEARCH
September 1st, 2005
BY ALAN OSBORNHOW would you like the idea of a swarm of hundreds of tiny microscopic robots, each one smaller than an ant's eye, charging through your body inspecting its defences against disease and injury and making repairs and improvements? No, this isn't science fiction but a real-life project that may one day be a routine aspect of cancer and other treatment. I-SWARM - a research project being developed by scientists from eight European countries centred on the university of Karlsruhe in Germany - is backed by Euros 4.4 million from the EU's Future and ...
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