Harvard Researchers Create Microscopic Robots
Nanotechnology has once again proved useful. This time, Harvard Science reports that researchers from the Rowland Institute of Harvard have been able to develop and manufacture microscopic robots that can carry (or rather push) chemicals and other loads that are heavier than themselves through liquids or solutions; water, medicine, drugs, blood, and other types of liquids and solutions easily come to mind. Thus, the development of this nanoscale robots have implications in the field of biological research and medicine, especially microsurgery, among others.
Peer Fischer, one of the researchers in charge of the project, says it’s rather early to say whether these nanoscale robots will prove useful in such applications, but he does say that the microscopic robots may be used and tested in these contexts. Apart from being able to carry loads heavier than themselves, moreover, millions of them may be manufactured at once. The best thing about the robots, however, is the fact that their movements may be controlled with precision through the manipulation of their magnetic field.