WASHINGTON: A pill that vibrates to relieve constipation, a sensor that can be tracked in the gut – medical researchers are turning to tiny robots to treat or diagnose gastrointestinal disorders.
“This is a very booming field,” said Saransh Sharma, a doctoral student at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) involved in the development of the ingestible diagnostic sensor.
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