SEMINAR REPORT

ON
INGESTIBLE ROBOTS

Submitted by:
Achal Raj
MLE1903
Topic: INGESTIBLE ROBOTS

Most of the parents have faced horrors of children swallowing buttons or other
harmful items which are sometimes nearly impossible to extract unless operated and cut
open. Scientists have long been asking: what if we operate from the inside? And there comes
ingestible robots, which can be used to patch up wounds or deliver medicine to the sites
earlier thought difficult to reach.

The small origami robots have previously held the attention of NASA as a prototype to send
small objects to space for various tasks like repair, attachment, and construction. Following a
long set of papers on “origami robots” by Rus et al. , the foldable ingestible robots have
finally paved the way for the health sector. “For applications inside the body, we need a
small, controllable, untethered robot system. It’s challenging to control and place a robot
inside the body if the robot is attached to a tether,” says Rus, director of MIT’s Computer
Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

In experiments involving a simulation of the human esophagus and stomach, Researchers at MIT, the
University of Sheffield, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology have demonstrated the idea of orgami
robots that can remove a swallowed button battery or patch a woundIn 2016, Professor Daniela Rus
and a team of researchers created an ingestible robot that could be controlled magnetically outside of
a patient.

The ingestible robots are tiny orgami based robot that can unfold itself from a swallowed
capsule and , steered by external magnetic fields , crawl across the stomach wall to remove a
swallowed button battery or patch a wound remove a foreignbody , deliver drugs , and
biodegrade

Key points:
● Experiment Components
● Robot Design And Remote Control
● Robot Archirecture
● Ice Capsule Transformation
● Advantage And Disadvantages
● Future Enhancment