<![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot - Gizmodo Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gizmodo.com.png <![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot - Gizmodo Comments]]> http://gizmodo.com Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:02:40 EDT Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:02:40 EDT http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/medical/scientists-develop-artery-scurrying-micro-robot-313326.php <![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/medical/scientists-develop-artery-scurrying-micro-robot-313326.php#c2740787 " Uh, Captain?, Our creepy little robot---HAL---uh, he won't talk to us anymore." "Uh, do you think this is a problem?" And hey, that crab better be 'housebroke'. If he is consumming the sugars in your blood, is he not, also, 'crapping' in your blood?

lunarstreaker

]]> 4:313326:c2740787 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:02:40 EDT <![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/medical/scientists-develop-artery-scurrying-micro-robot-313326.php#c2740164 Its going to have an Apple logo on it as soon as Jobs issues a press release.

"Its our tiniest Nano ever!"

gundamsdontkillpeople

]]> 4:313326:c2740164 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:55:30 EDT <![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/medical/scientists-develop-artery-scurrying-micro-robot-313326.php#c2738757 @rainsfather:
Nice Cowboy Bebop Movie reference :)
I too am skeptical. I would hate to have one break down on it's 3 week Fantastic Voyage. Or worse yet...go bonkers and decide to try clawing it's way out of my chest ala Alien in nano form.

smegz

]]> 4:313326:c2738757 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:14:56 EDT <![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/medical/scientists-develop-artery-scurrying-micro-robot-313326.php#c2736871 i'd like to see some technology that allows us to run our cellphones, laptop computers, pmp's, etc using blood glucose via some kind of implanted interface.

that way no one would be overweight, because all of our excess calories would be used to power our gadgets. and they could have a failsafe built in to either stop consuming energy (based on our blood/sugar level) or to prompt us to eat/drink something appropriate.

Terranova

]]> 4:313326:c2736871 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:26:04 EDT <![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/medical/scientists-develop-artery-scurrying-micro-robot-313326.php#c2734027 This could also be used to remove fatal blood clots from someone's legs, etc. Damn Discovery Health...freaked me out w/ a show this weekend. Going to start going to the gym again. LOL.

BigDanInTX

]]> 4:313326:c2734027 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:46:45 EDT <![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/medical/scientists-develop-artery-scurrying-micro-robot-313326.php#c2733418 Hmmm... 55 yards in three weeks. Sounds like our college football team.

FreeMan

]]> 4:313326:c2733418 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:08:33 EDT <![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/medical/scientists-develop-artery-scurrying-micro-robot-313326.php#c2732795 Will the breakdown of glucose in the blood like that cause any problems? I guess maybe it wouldn't be a problem if these nanobots were only present in small number because they are so small but maybe if your body is overloaded with them??

procon.1

]]> 4:313326:c2732795 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:29:01 EDT <![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/medical/scientists-develop-artery-scurrying-micro-robot-313326.php#c2730514 Resistance is futile...

ideaman2020

]]> 4:313326:c2730514 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:33:29 EDT <![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/medical/scientists-develop-artery-scurrying-micro-robot-313326.php#c2730040 Ah, but are they forward walking?

Gumby31

]]> 4:313326:c2730040 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:37:11 EDT <![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/medical/scientists-develop-artery-scurrying-micro-robot-313326.php#c2729682 So what happens when one of these things dislodges from it's little perch, tumbles further down the circulatory tree, and get stuck like Augustus Gloop in a river of chocolate? Then isn't it just going to be a little robotic arterial blockade, impervious to the very drugs used to break up clots (which it's carrying in it's diabolical robot gullet)?

Probably not too much I suppose, since it'll be so small... unless it get's all balled up by our rabidly sensitive immune system. The questions mount... Interesting...

rparvez

]]> 4:313326:c2729682 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:35:19 EDT <![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/medical/scientists-develop-artery-scurrying-micro-robot-313326.php#c2729449 This is just amazing. Imagine a few of these running around, powered by blood sugar, doing the odd repair, blockage removal, etc. Too cool...

PhyreBlade

]]> 4:313326:c2729449 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 06:06:55 EDT <![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/medical/scientists-develop-artery-scurrying-micro-robot-313326.php#c2729420 Why are you people being so jokey about this. It could revolutionise the way medicine works, saving people from horrible conditions like diabetes, and liver conditions by coating the nano-bots with chemicals that break down commonly-found poisons such as alcohols. Quit joking about it - this could save lives.
Added to that, it won't break down body fat. It scurries through arteries, not your beer guts.

Bobofthedead

]]> 4:313326:c2729420 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:44:21 EDT <![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/medical/scientists-develop-artery-scurrying-micro-robot-313326.php#c2729310 Just think how many advances and how much progress humanity could make if scientists and intellectuals received proper funding and compensation and were deified in the same way "entertainers" are. If the $750,000 Britney Spears earns a month and the $122 million Tiger Woods and Peyton Manning collectively earn were instead used for the advancement of humankind, we would have figured out teleportation, radio telepathy and nanites by now.

But since the likelihood of this happening is very much unlikely, I guess that means no "Golden Age of Reason" for us, then?

tetrahedron

]]> 4:313326:c2729310 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 04:23:09 EDT <![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/medical/scientists-develop-artery-scurrying-micro-robot-313326.php#c2729300 now... if there can program this little critters to break down my body fats and make me thinner, then i'm sold.

weak_pig

]]> 4:313326:c2729300 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 04:15:14 EDT <![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/medical/scientists-develop-artery-scurrying-micro-robot-313326.php#c2729117 Fantastic- I am going start the process to have my HMO OK this expenditures. At the rate my HMO grants approval, it should be 20 years, about the time it will come to market.

DeadWriter

]]> 4:313326:c2729117 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:06:06 EDT <![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/medical/scientists-develop-artery-scurrying-micro-robot-313326.php#c2729099 We need more tech that utilizes blood glucose to function within the human body. That way, the more unhealthy we are, the more sugar we eat, the more crap we take into our bodies, the better it will be for us, by powering all the little devices that keep us running harder, better, faster, stronger. Now where's the glucose-powered joint actuators? I want to be able to benchpress 30 times my weight, without breaking a sweat!

SilverStar95

]]> 4:313326:c2729099 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:53:31 EDT <![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/medical/scientists-develop-artery-scurrying-micro-robot-313326.php#c2729094 Guy: I feel like my arteries are clogged, do you have something for it?
Doc: Sure, take this.
Guy: Er, but this bottle reads, "Drain Cleaner"
Doc: Sure, but it's powered with NANO TECHNOLOGY!
Guy: OMG! I want it! (drinks the drain cleaner)

20 min later...

Guy: Uh, doctor? I don't feel so freakin' good!
Doc: Oh, really? Well I'll be - looks like this really is drain cleaner. I'll see if I have anything that'll cure certain death...
Guy: Do you really have something like that?
Doc: Nope, just being facetious. Sorry.

electrikecho

]]> 4:313326:c2729094 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:50:15 EDT <![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/medical/scientists-develop-artery-scurrying-micro-robot-313326.php#c2729071 And all these years I've worked so hard to avoid getting crabs... Now some doc will likely tell me I need a shot of some. Wonder if they get rid of them with a special shampoo?

grok666

]]> 4:313326:c2729071 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:31:38 EDT <![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/medical/scientists-develop-artery-scurrying-micro-robot-313326.php#c2729070 This time when you say that you've got crabs it will be a badge of honor, as opposed to being a mark of shame.

I want to get crabs too!
:)

TonyTriple

]]> 4:313326:c2729070 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:31:37 EDT <![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/medical/scientists-develop-artery-scurrying-micro-robot-313326.php#c2728946 @CCM333:
You're kidding, right?

packetsniffer

]]> 4:313326:c2728946 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:29:28 EDT <![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/medical/scientists-develop-artery-scurrying-micro-robot-313326.php#c2728917 I for one welcome our nano-sized artery crawling overlords. This is the end.

ysirotin

]]> 4:313326:c2728917 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:22:25 EDT <![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/medical/scientists-develop-artery-scurrying-micro-robot-313326.php#c2728860 shotgun being the 1st person to try these devices when they're fitted out to give me dragon ball z/naruto like abilities.

tin

]]> 4:313326:c2728860 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:13:56 EDT <![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/medical/scientists-develop-artery-scurrying-micro-robot-313326.php#c2728780 ummm... i really don't feel safe knowing that little nano bots could be running threw me while im asleep on the operating table... you knnow the whole robots taking over body theory is very disturbing... and we're only helping them by putting them INSIDE us...
not a good sign...

CCM333

]]> 4:313326:c2728780 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:01:18 EDT <![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/medical/scientists-develop-artery-scurrying-micro-robot-313326.php#c2728696 @Trocar Jockey: not really. it would not take very much since the drug would be applied directly to the affected area and not have to diffuse it through the whole body like current drugs provided.

rainsfather

]]> 4:313326:c2728696 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:51:18 EDT <![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/medical/scientists-develop-artery-scurrying-micro-robot-313326.php#c2728595 "Once inside a blocked artery, it is able to release drugs to dissolve blood clots, which are often the cause of heart attacks."

I'm assuming that the payload of each bot would be very tiny. Wouldn't a whole bunch of mecha-bugs be needed to have any effect?

Trocar Jockey

]]> 4:313326:c2728595 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:40:58 EDT <![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/medical/scientists-develop-artery-scurrying-micro-robot-313326.php#c2728585 Do nano-crabs make you nano-itch?

frigg

]]> 4:313326:c2728585 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:38:59 EDT <![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/medical/scientists-develop-artery-scurrying-micro-robot-313326.php#c2728584 I for one would like to welcome our new nano-sized underlords....

Seriously though, this is one more small step towards man overcoming mortality. I just hope I'm part of the generation that gets to live forever.

Ben

]]> 4:313326:c2728584 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:38:37 EDT <![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/medical/scientists-develop-artery-scurrying-micro-robot-313326.php#c2728555 "the main body is rectangular, the three hind legs are longer than the three legs at the front, by attaching to heart muscle the legs bend at the time of cardiac contraction, propelling the machine forwards."
You were doing so well with your punctuation in the last post, Haroon... And then this happened. *sigh*
*shakes head in sorrow*

Anyway, this is pretty amazing stuff. Maybe Stargate is right... there really are Replicators!

packetsniffer

]]> 4:313326:c2728555 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:36:01 EDT <![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/medical/scientists-develop-artery-scurrying-micro-robot-313326.php#c2728535 Maybe they could season potato chips with these little things to counteract all that grease.

bob-e

]]> 4:313326:c2728535 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:32:40 EDT <![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/medical/scientists-develop-artery-scurrying-micro-robot-313326.php#c2728499 nice a bunch of these in your body and theres a possiblity for super-human ablities.

Cryptic_sin

]]> 4:313326:c2728499 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:27:29 EDT <![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/medical/scientists-develop-artery-scurrying-micro-robot-313326.php#c2728461 Soon we are going to be grabbing 2 cans of soda from the fridge, one to enjoy and the other to allow you to get a few more hours of gaming for your computer.

now they just need a device that runs on sugars, or soda and its bi-product is beer. now thats a device i wouldn't mind running 24/7

atomriot

]]> 4:313326:c2728461 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:22:56 EDT <![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/medical/scientists-develop-artery-scurrying-micro-robot-313326.php#c2728332 @RAINSFATHER:
nice bebop reference!

norfizzle

]]> 4:313326:c2728332 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:04:46 EDT <![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/medical/scientists-develop-artery-scurrying-micro-robot-313326.php#c2728299 It worries me that the researchers have 'discovered' that it can go so fast...

But hey, this would be great for killing people; send some bots to release toxins into the body... *evil laugh

rthprog

]]> 4:313326:c2728299 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:01:00 EDT <![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/medical/scientists-develop-artery-scurrying-micro-robot-313326.php#c2728274 wanna see a real pic

Red Right Hand

]]> 4:313326:c2728274 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:56:57 EDT <![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/medical/scientists-develop-artery-scurrying-micro-robot-313326.php#c2728224 Welcome to the 21st Century everyone...

Chalkperson

]]> 4:313326:c2728224 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:50:34 EDT <![CDATA[Scientists Develop Artery Scurrying Micro Robot]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/medical/scientists-develop-artery-scurrying-micro-robot-313326.php#c2728193 I dont care how great this sounds, it still creeps me out. Every time I hear the word nano ( which alot with the apple stuff lately ) I just think to myself how its going to suck to see the little yellow butterflys right before my death.

rainsfather

]]> 4:313326:c2728193 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:45:38 EDT