Nanotechnology Ahead: Mini-Robots May One Day Assemble Medical Devices Inside Your Body

April 25, 2014

(Medical Daily) – For some time now, scientists as well as science fiction writers have dreamed of nanotechnologies as an addition to the medical toolbox for helping patients to heal. New research published in Advanced Functional Materials provides some of the groundwork necessary to one day develop mini-robots that could perform delicate tasks inside your body. As the thinking goes, these nanotechnologies would be able to swim in your bloodstream and even assemble medical devices inside your body.