Robot works like sperm

Dutch and Egyptian engineers have created a sperm-like robot that can be manipulated by a magnet and is one day used to transfer medications.

Dutch and Egyptian engineers have developed a sperm-like robot that can be manipulated by a magnet and is one day used to transfer medications, artificial insemination, and clotting of clotted blood vessels. .

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A team of researchers from the University of Twente (the Netherlands) and the German University in Cairo (Egypt) have successfully developed sperm-inspired mini robots and can be controlled by weak magnetic fields.

The robot, called MagnetoSperm long, 322 microns (micron = 0,001mm) has a structure very simple, with the first part of cobalt-nickel coating thickness and alloy tail section not covered.

When struck by a magnetic field that is less than 5 milliseconds, the equivalent of a decorative magnet on the fridge, the robot will 'trot' and move forward.

Experts can steer the robot by manipulating predecessors to a certain point, according to Wired.

In the future, they hope to reduce the size of MagnetoSperm and are currently working on ways to make magnetic nanotubes for use as robots.

Update 11 December 2018
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