BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Scientists will unveil technology this week that could eventually help children who swallow button batteries. More than 3,000 people swallow the highly corrosive batteries every ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Has your child swallowed a small battery? In the future, a tiny robot made from pig gut could capture it and expel it. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are ...

The days of waiting for a swallowed item to pass through the body may soon be gone, thanks to a tiny pill-size origami robot. Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers recently developed a ...

Researchers have created a minuscule origami robot that unfolds itself from a swallowed capsule and, steered by external magnetic fields, moves across the stomach wall to remove swallowed objects or ...

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