How you could see inside your body — with a micro-robot | Alex Luebke, Vivek Kumbhari

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🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Would you swallow a micro-robot? In a gutsy demo, physician Vivek Kumbhari navigates Pillbot, a wireless, disposable robot swallowed onstage by engineer Alex Luebke, modeling how this technology can swiftly provide direct visualization of internal organs. Learn more about how micro-robots could move us past the age of invasive endoscopies and open up doors to more comfortable, affordable medical imaging. (This talk contains medical imagery.)

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	You're listening to Ted Talks Daily,
0:11.0	where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
0:14.6	I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:16.4	Today a way to explore our insides that just hasn't been possible before.
0:21.8	Engineer Alex Lubka and physician scientist Vivit
0:25.0	Kumbari demoed this on the TED 2024 stage
0:28.9	by actually swallowing a pillbot.
0:32.1	Something folks in the audience will not soon forget.
0:35.0	Oh my God the pill he swallowed was mind-blowing.
0:38.0	I cannot believe he just did that.
0:40.0	And we walked around here to actually check on the speaker and he's still standing and we're like, oh, that's a great sign.
0:46.0	So that was definitely an aha. That was dead like.
0:50.0	You heard it here first, folks. the Pilbot could change the game. So we'll let the people behind it explain after the break.
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