When robots are mentioned, people’s first impressions are mostly clumsy humanoid steels that give people the sense of “Terror Valley,†but the contribution of these robots may be limited to “dismantling the human labor force.†Recently, another robot is quietly It has contributed another kind of strength to humanity - healing.
According to foreign media reports, the research team formed by the three universities of Montreal, Canada, Montreal University and McGill University has recently made a breakthrough in the field of medical robots. The medical robots mentioned here are not humanoid robots that perform operations on humans. Instead, they inject robots into the human body to destroy cancer cells. This is the legendary “nano-robotâ€.
The new type of nano robotic reagent developed by the research team has recently been able to shuttle through the bloodstream and use tumor-active cancer cells as targets and to administer them. According to the foreign media literature, the team conducted a mouse model study and showed that this nano-robot reagent successfully delivered the drug to colorectal tumor lesions.
The working principle of this nano-robot is actually very complicated. A large number of nano-robots are actually composed of more than 100 million flagella-bearing bacteria. Therefore, it is advancing in a completely autonomous manner and the drug can be carried from the injection point. Moves between the lesions that the body needs to treat are shortcuts. This approach ensures that the injected drug is optimally positioned on the tumor and avoids compromised integrity of organs and surrounding healthy tissue. Therefore, the dose of highly toxic drugs to the human body can be significantly reduced.
This is not the first time that "nanobots" have been used in medical treatment. As early as 1959, Richard Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, introduced the concept of nanobots.
Before long ago, Google X Labs life sciences team announced that Google is designing a kind of nano magnetic particles that can enter the human circulatory system for the early diagnosis and treatment of cancer and other diseases, that is, nanobots.
However, so far, medical nano-robot technology still remains in the R&D pilot phase, and some technical obstacles have yet to be resolved. From the current stage, due to the limitation of industrial level, nanobots have research bottlenecks in terms of drive, control, and sensor feedback. Despite this, many scientists, engineers, and doctors believe that nanobots are likely to bring about a medical revolution in the foreseeable future. This "in-house doctor" will release tremendous potential in difficult diseases such as cancer treatment.
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