Tiny robot capable of navigating live tissue could boost fig

To better fight lung cancer, TUNC –Chapel Hill and Vanderbilt University researchers have been working on an extremely bendy but sturdy robot capable of traversing lung tissue to deal with very small, hidden tumors.

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