Would you let a robot millipede in your intestines?
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Would you let a robot millipede in your intestines?
How would feel about letting a robotic millipede loose in your intestines, free to explore your insides?
Slightly reluctant perhaps?
That is one of the proposed applications of a new kind of robot that mimics both the way a millipede walks and the way the human body uses tiny hairs, called cilia, to moves particles around inside us.