Robots may soon actively crawl through your gut
Doctors will guide them to deliver medicine and check the intestines for disease
Eric Niiler
Mar 29, 2018 — 6:45 am EST
David Zarrouk, Ben-Gurion University
There’s a wet, squishy tube 9 meters (30 feet) long that carries food from your mouth to your stomach and on through the gut. At times it will get folded over and over (to fit into your belly). This digestive tract is where your body slowly breaks down food, absorbing what it needs for energy and health. Anything not needed will exit out its end — and unceremoniously into your toilet — as waste.
As the entry portal for all food and water, its function and health is pivotal to life. B
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