Develop a scorpion robot to serve medical research

Scorpion venom has many uses in medicine, including support for cancer research and development of anti-malarial drugs. Scientists now have to extract the toxin manually, but that will soon be resolved thanks to the scorpion's "milking robot" designed to quickly capture its venom. and safer.

In more detail, the scorpion's toxin is extracted manually by scientists with the aid of electrical and physical stimulators. This can cause the scorpion to die and cause a lot of trouble in the process. Not to mention the arrest and the sting of an extremely rare animal is no fun. To that end, researchers at Ben M'sik Hassan II University have developed a device called VES-4 .

VES-4 is designed to extract scorpion venom without harming it.

VES-4 can also be used in labs and out of the field. The device works by clamping the scorpion's tail back and then using electricity to stimulate it to shoot out venom. This venom will be collected and kept inside the device. "VES-4 is designed to extract scorpion venom without harming it, and provides a safer laboratory technique ," said Mouad Mkamel, who led the study . Only one remote control user was able to obtain venom safely. "

It is known that VES-4 has been tested on a variety of scorpions and can be programmed to memorize each setting, allowing for quick adjustment of settings over time. VES-4 also has an LED display that can display the name of the scorpion in action. In fact, VES-4 is not the first robot used by scientists in medicine. In the past, robots were designed to be used to design drugs, even for robots, to implant human tissue.