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Snake-inspired soft robot could help doctors diagnose and treat small intestine disorders (opens in a new tab)

medicalxpress.com · 2026-10-28

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Claim 1 of 5Not checkedMIT engineers have designed a new robotic enteroscope that can move easily through the narrow passage of the small intestine, allowing it to perform imaging, deliver drugs and remove small polyps or tissue samples for biopsy.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 2 of 5Not checkedThe robot was inspired by the locomotion of snakes and the scaly skin that helps them gain traction on slippery surfaces; a special textured coating helps it remain attached to the mucosal lining of the intestine as it moves.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 3 of 5Not checkedTraverso is the senior author of the study, which appears today in Science Robotics, and the paper's lead authors are Binbin Ying, Ahmad Mujtaba Jebran and Sahab Babaee.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 4 of 5Not checkedThe article says the main small-intestine problems doctors need to evaluate include bleeding, lesions and blockages, and that the current standard procedure, double-balloon enteroscopy, is slow and laborious.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 5 of 5Not checkedIn animal studies, the researchers showed that the robot could travel about 6.5 feet (2 meters) through the small intestine and successfully demonstrated the drug sprayer, tissue clips and camera.View evidenceHide evidence

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Reconfigurable kirigami skins steer a soft robot

2023 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft) · 2023 · Crossref

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Analysis of Soft Kirigami Unit Cells for Tunable Stiffness Architectures

2021 IEEE 4Th International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft) · 2021 · Crossref

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