Tiny ‘Micro-Robots’ in your Bloodstream Could Deliver Drugs with Greater Precision

The Washington Post reports:

Scientists in Switzerland have created a robot the size of a grain of sand that is controlled by magnets and can deliver drugs to a precise location in the human body, a breakthrough aimed at reducing the severe side effects that stop many medicines from advancing in clinical trials… “I think surgeons are going to look at this,” [said Bradley J. Nelson, an author of the paper in Science describing the discovery and a professor of robotics…