How you could see inside your body — with a micro-robot | Alex Luebke and Vivek Kumbhari

Update: 2024-08-16

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Would you swallow a micro-robot? In a gutsy demo, physician Vivek Kumbhari navigates Pillbot, a wireless, disposable robot swallowed onstage by engineer Alex Luebke, modeling how this technology can swiftly provide direct visualization of internal organs. Learn more about how micro-robots could move us past the age of invasive endoscopies and open up doors to more comfortable, affordable medical imaging. After the talk, Sherrell reflects on how these kinds of innovations could impact the future of diagnostics for everyone.

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How you could see inside your body — with a micro-robot | Alex Luebke and Vivek Kumbhari

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