Programmable, Ingestible, and Implantable Microbots

Published 2020-03

Tiny robots capable of delivering medicine to a specific area of the body, or assisting with micro-surgery, are here: They can be steered, threaded, and unfolded to patch wounds, dislodge swallowed objects, perform biopsies, and deliver targeted medications.

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Verdict

renamedThe same phenomenon is listed again within two editions under a new name (D33).

Continued as ftsg-tech-trends-2021-237

A trend is graded on whether the publisher keeps it, never as a hit or a miss (D6, D33).

In our research

HorizonsNanobot

All captured fields

rank: 276
section: Biointerfaces and Wearables
subsection: Biointerfaces
subject: Programmable, Ingestible, and Implantable Microbots
page: 247
confidence: medium
note: Title from the contents list in the SlideShare transcript of the publisher upload; order and section from contents page numbers. Quote added 2026-10-02 from the full slide transcript of the publisher upload (SlideShare, Wayback capture of the newer page format); source_url points at the section that holds the page.